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Version du 17 novembre 2007 à 17:48
What is abortion?
"Abortion is the removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus from the uterus, resulting in or caused by its death." [1]
It means that abortion is used to remove deliberately the still living blabla or the already dead blabla.
What is the difference between a human embryo and fetus?
- Embryo: Until the third month of pregnancy the organism is callled embryo. After that point, it is called fetus.
- Fetus: The organism after three months (when the major structures have formed) until birth.
Why three months?
The limit of three months (12 weeks) is not universal, some put it at 8 weeks.
Is abortion a form of contraception?
- definition of contraception: different methods used in order to avoid temporarily the fertilization
According to this definition, abortion is not a contraception form because the fertilization has already occured.
- Another defintion of contraception: different methods used in order to avoid having a baby
According to this second definition, abortion is a form of contraception because it inhibits having a baby.
Can we consider abortion as a murder?
When is an embryo or a fetus considered as a "full" human being?
Until when (in pregnancy) is abortion allowed and why?
What are the different forms of abortion?
- Induced abortion: An induced abortion is a pregnancy which is voluntarily aborted and this can be done by using different methods. The method used depends mainly upon the gestional age of the fetus (the age of a fetus from the first day to the day the pregnancy arrives to its term. But the method chosen also depends
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