ABORTION

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 DOES THE MOTHER HAVE THE RIGHT
TO CHOOSE WHETHER TO CONTINUE
HER PREGNANCY OR NOT?
 WHEN DOES HUMAN LIFE BEGIN?
 ABORTION IN THE
PHILIPPINES
 HOW PREVALENT IS
ABORTION IN THE
PHILIPPINES?
 WHO DOES THE
ABORTION?
 CAN A MOTHER
WHO ABORTED HER
BABY BE
IMPRISONED?
 ABORTION
 EXPULSION OF A LIVING FETUS
FROM THE MOTHER’S WOMB BEFORE
IT IS VIABLE.
 TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY
SPONTANEOUSLY OR BY
INDUCTION.
 TYPES OF

ABORTION
SPONTANEOUS ABORTION: OCCURS
NATURALLY WITH NO ARTIFICIAL
MEANS AND THE FETUS IS USUALLY
LOST IN THE FIRST TRIMESTER.
 INDUCED ABORTION: OCCURS AS A
RESULT OF ARTIFICIAL OR
MECHANICAL INTERRUPTION OR
DUE TO VOLUNTARY AND EFFECTIVE
HUMAN INTERVENTION.
 TYPES OF SPONTANEOUS
ABORTION
 THREATENED ABORTION
 IMMINENT ABORTION
 COMPLETE ABORTION
 INCOMPLETE ABORTION
 MISSED ABORTION
 HABITUAL ABORTION
TECHNIQUES OF INDUCED
ABORTION
 ABORTION BY
DILATATION AND
CURETTAGE: UTILIZES
A CURVED BLADE
INTRODUCED INTO
THE CERVIX UNTIL IT
REACHES THE
ENDOMETRIAL WALL
 TECHNIQUES OF INDUCED
ABORTION
 ABORTION BY CS OR
HYSTERECTOMY:
CARRIED OUT IN A
SIMILAR FASHION AS
IN ANY CAESARIAN
SECTION
TECHNIQUES OF INDUCED
ABORTION
 ABORTION
SUCTION:CARRIED
OUT BY ASPIRATING
THE FETUS ADHERENT
TO THE WALL BY
MEANS OF A POTENT
VACUUM MACHINE.
 TECHNIQUES OF INDUCED
ABORTION
 ABORTION VIA INTRAAMNIOTIC INFILTRATION:
DONE BY FIRST EXTRACTING ABOUT 10 TO 300
CC OF AMNIOTIC FLUID THROUGH AN
ABDOMINAL PUNCTURE FOLLOWED BY
INFILTRATION OF 20% HYPERTONIC SOLUTION
OR 50% DEXTROSE WATER INTO THE AMNIOTIC
SAC.
 TECHNIQUES OF INDUCED
ABORTION
 ABORTION VIA IV INJECTION OF
PROSTAGLANDINS: PROSTAGLANDIN
ACTS BY EXERTING POWERFUL
CONTRACTILITY OF UTERINE MUSCLES
WHEN INFUSED SLOWLY USING THE IV
ROUTE.
 LEGAL AND MORAL
CONSIDERATIONS
 ARTICLE II SECTION 12, PHIL.
CONSTITUTION:
• THE STATE RECOGNIZES THE SANCTITY
OF LIFE AND SHALL PROTECT AND
STRENGTHEN THE FAMILY AS AN
AUTONOMOUS SOCIAL INSTITUTION.
 EFFECTS OF ABORTION
 PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS
• MISCARRIAGES
• INFERTILITY/ECTOPIC PREGNANCIES
• BREAST CANCER
 PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS
• POSTABORTION SYNDROME
WHO CHRONICLE OF
1976
WHEN THE MOTHER IS AUTHORIZED TO

SAFEGUARD HER PHYSICAL AND MENTAL
HEALTH
 WHEN PREGNANCY IS A CONSEQUENCE OF
RAPE OR INCEST
 WHEN THE MOTHER HAS BEEN EXPOSED TO
RISKS LEADING TO DEFECTIVE FETAL
DEVELOPMENT
 WHEN DOWN’S SYNDROME OR OTHER
CHROSOMAL ABNORMALITIES ARE
DIAGNOSED THROUGH AMNIOCENTESIS
 WHEN THE PARENTS ARE MENTALLY
DEFICIENT
NURSES’ RESPONSIBILTY