{"id":89352,"date":"2016-03-03T18:17:55","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T23:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=89352"},"modified":"2016-03-07T16:52:54","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T21:52:54","slug":"these-are-the-4-most-prevalent-abortion-procedures-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/these-are-the-4-most-prevalent-abortion-procedures-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"These are the 4 most prevalent abortion procedures in America"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Every day in America, nearly 3,000 preborn children are killed by abortion.\u00a0The\u00a0Guttmacher Institute, a\u00a0former research arm of Planned Parenthood, records that there\u00a0are an estimated\u00a01.06 million abortions in a year in the United States\u2014 one every 30 seconds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In the following videos, Dr. Anthony Levatino,\u00a0a practicing OB\/GYN who performed over 1,200 abortions in the early part of his career,\u00a0describes the four most prevalent abortion procedures in the United States<\/a>. More information about these procedures can be found at AbortionProcedures.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Medical abortions occur in the first trimester,\u00a0after a women ingests pills containing Mifepristone (RU-486) and Misoprostol. The drugs are FDA approved up to seven weeks LMP, although it is sometimes prescribed off-label up to nine or 10 weeks LMP.<\/p>\n

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According to the Guttmacher Institute<\/a>, medical abortion accounts for 36 percent\u00a0of abortions before nine weeks\u2019 gestation, in 2011, or an estimated 240,790.<\/p>\n

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Medical abortions increased from\u00a06 percent\u00a0of all abortions in 2001 to 23\u00a0percent\u00a0in 2011, while the overall number of abortions declined over the years. Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry have been pushing the abortion pill, which requires no direct medical supervision,\u00a0as the new wave of\u00a0the future.<\/p>\n