{"id":189872,"date":"2018-10-19T08:19:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T13:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=189872"},"modified":"2018-10-18T00:38:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T05:38:03","slug":"first-trimester-abortion-works-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/first-trimester-abortion-works-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"How a first trimester abortion works: The Suction Aspiration D&C"},"content":{"rendered":"
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According to the Guttmacher Institute, the former research arm of Planned Parenthood, approximately 89% of abortions take place within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy<\/a>, also known as the first trimester. This means that approximately 824,318 first trimester abortions are done each year in the U.S (according to 2014 statistics). Because of numbers like this, frequently, we hear abortion advocates refer to abortion as a “common” procedure. “Common” is a very subjective word, however. In comparison to things like colonoscopies (19 million annually<\/a>) and wisdom tooth extractions (5 million<\/a>) — both procedures to which abortion has, at times, been compared — it isn’t as common as you’d think. Abortion, while frequently described as a simple medical procedure like any other, is the only one which carries as its main purpose<\/em> the ending of a pregnancy by terminating the life of a developing human being within the womb.<\/p>\n

READ: First trimester babies aren’t blobs of tissue — they’re amazingly complex<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the website AbortionProcedures.com<\/a>, a first trimester suction aspiration D&C abortion “is a procedure in which a suction catheter is inserted into the mother\u2019s uterus to extract the preborn baby. Tools are then used to scrape the lining of the uterus to remove any remaining parts.” This is typically done anywhere from five to 13 weeks of pregnancy. Watch as the procedure is described below:<\/p>\n