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The negative effects of abortion
In 1985, maternal mortality was about 4.7 deaths per 100000 live births. Abortion was one of the main factors of maternal mortality. Abortion was introduced very long time ago and since then it has become an easy alternative for unwanted pregnancies. An abortion is done normally during the early weeks of the pregnancy when the unborn child is developing and forming and there are many ways of performing an abortion. Taking away a child's life has not only many psychological effect but abortion also effects the mother greatly. There are three main negative aspects that affect women who abort their innocent unborn child. The three main effects are the immediate biological effect, the eventual biological effect and the psychological effect.
First of all, performing an abortion, like any other surgery, involves many tools and operation equipments. These tools used sometimes may not be clean. One of the main effects of abortion is the immediate biological effect. Infection is one of the immediate effect that happens normally immediately after the abortion. The infection normally occurs in the uterus or the fallopian tube. Furthermore infections can be very dangerous as it can spread to other parts of the body. One of the usual infections which involve the fallopian tube that occurs is the Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID). This disease affects the fallopian tube in a very dangerous way and normally it is hard to overcome the disease. A woman who has PID has a very high risk of dying. The PID is usually very difficult to manage and this often leads to infertility. Another event that would happen in the immediate time period is hemorrhage, which is instant bleeding. After an abortion is performed, the mother normally looses a lot of blood. When they loose a lot of blood,
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they need blood transfusions to keep them alive. A study has shown that 9.5% of them needed blood transfusion. A blood transfusion is the one...