Can having an abortion affect your chances of getting pregnant in the future??
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If you go to the religious type of pro-life websites, they will say YES.  I think it is their way of playing on your fears.  Here is what I found:\n\nA medical estimate of the rates of infertility:\n NetDoctor is a British medical web site which has a team of doctors offering medical information to the general public. Dr. Hilary Jones stated: \n\n"...abortion will not affect her future fertility. There remains a false perception that a therapeutic abortion, as it is called, can be harmful to health, but this is in fact is not the case. In times gone by before therapeutic abortions were legal, operations were performed outside the law by backstreet abortionists using unsterilised equipment and dangerous techniques." \n\n"Complications were common after such procedures ranging from pelvic infection to infertility and even death on many occasions. However this is no longer the case. Remember too that the anti-abortionists sometimes used to deliberately frighten women by saying that they might never be able to have a baby again in order to discourage them from having an abortion. These people may have been genuine in their ethical convictions, but they were less than truthful or properly researched about the medical facts."\n\n"Now the operation is carried out under general anaesthesia in sterile hospital environments by sympathetic staff in controlled and regulated fashion. The procedure does not damage the cervix or the rest of the womb, and provided no post-operative infection takes place, as it very seldom does, there is no reason why your girlfriend's fertility should be affected." 4\n\n BabyCenter offers a similar Q&A service. Robert Jansen, a clinical professor of reproductive medicine at the University of Sydney in Australia, was asjed: "Does a past abortion (or more than one) affect my chances of getting pregnant?" He replied: \n\n"Probably not. However, in rare cases, multiple dilations and curettages (the cleaning out of the uterus, also known as a D&C) can cause some scarring at the top of the cervix or inside the uterus. A procedure called hysteroscopy (when a small camera is placed through your cervix into your uterine cavity) can be used to check for this problem and can usually repair the scar tissue at the same time." \n\n"But even if that's not the case for you, you should know that any procedure that dilates the cervix (a necessary step during most abortions) can weaken it. So if you've had more than one abortion and you get pregnant again later on, you may find that you have what's known as an incompetent cervix — a cervix that starts dilating prematurely. This can sometimes be treated with a stitch to keep the cervix closed, called a cerclage." 5\n\n A scientific review article in the International Journal of Fertility and Menopausal Studies concluded that legal induced abortions have almost no chance of infertility when done in the first or second trimester. 6  http://www.religioustolerance.org/abo_infe.htm\n\nYou can go to this site for more detailed info.
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actually there is something you take that is like cough syrup that will make you have an abortion. i've had 2 very close friends to take it and it works. it is actually over the corner but it doesn't say it is used for abortion on the bottle or anything.
604365
Having had an abortion myself, years ago, I hope that your Sister was counseled before she went through with it.  No one counseled me back then so I didn't know what to expect.  Initially I was "fine" and relieved on the way home, but the more I thought about it, the worse I became.  All these years later, it's left an emotional scar that only other women who have had the same procedure done, can and do understand.  I still remember the date the abortion took place, the name of the Doctor, what the room looked like, what my due-date would have been, and how old my child would be right now.  Each holiday after the abortion took on a new feeling and a new meaning within me.   Each holiday would have been my child's "first holiday".  Each day became harder and harder for me.  Still, to this day, I can't look at a pregnant woman - it hurts too much.  Please be there for your Sister and to listen to her.  She may even have suicidal feelings - this is a very common occurrence as well as trying to get pregnant again to "replace her first child".  While she may look the same on the outside, please remember that she's now different on the inside.
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Chances are against it, but yes, it is possible.  Try to go to www.scarleteen.com, they've got some expert advice on all and any questions about pregnancy, curiosity, your body, anything and everything under the sun.  It really is a great help.
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NO NO NO, an abortion is done during the development stage of a a human child. Which means the DNA hasn't fully developed either. What would be reproduced (cloned) is the the same thing that has been removed, and depending upon how exact the tolerences were on the bodily fliuds that would be needed to be used in order to finish the development were is what would determine the outcome.
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When you have an abortion, it generally only kills one being at a time.\n\nSmoking harms the health of everyone around you, and drinking to excess can kill one or many people at a time, depending who's abusing it and when.  \n\nIf you were on a trans-Atlantic flight, you wouldn't care if your pilot had an abortion; however, if she went on a drinking binge just before climbing into the cockpit, you'd be more than a little worried.
60878
Absolutely.  That baby is half the father's too.  The mother will ultimately probably have the final say.  Abortion could affect her uterus enough that she is unable to have children in the future due to scar tissue buildup.
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you had sex, yes you can be pregnant\nit does not matter what day(s) you had sex, if you have sex you can get pregnant.\nif you don't know that you should not be having sex.
706117
If you're going to have an abortion, you have much bigger problems than an untrimmed pubic region!  Hair doesn't prevent a penis from going into you, and won't prevent the doctor from inserting his surgical instruments to remove the unborn child.\nTo learn more about abortion, check out\nhttp://www.pregnancycenters.org/
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You've had 4 abortions?? I really hope that's not true. \nI hope that when you actually try to have children you struggle with it. 4 abortions is just sick--why didn't you consider giving them up for adoption? I can understand when there's one abortion---but 4? What was wrong with birth control or protection?\nMy husband and I have been trying to have another child for 2 years now--we'd give anything to have another one. And there are so many other families just like ours. You've thrown 4 away? That's not right! You should feel terrible about your decisions!
701553
sorry to hear you are going through this at such a young age.  be open and honest with your daughter... talk to her about these things... there are many factors in figuring out the odds of her developing breast cancer.  many don't realize that having an abortion ups the odds of breast cancer, taking hormones at a young age, ups the chances, family history of breast cancer ups the chances, but just because a woman may have these things in their life don't mean that she will in fact end up with breast cancer.  advise her to do monthly checks on herself, to see her doctor on a yearly basis for gyne exams, and to stay away from birth control pills, and spermicides, to abstain from sex until she is ready to have children, and not to have any abortions.... to not up the risks of breast cancer.  also talk to your oncologist for more ways of preventing or early detection of breast cancer, to help your daughter, so that she may have a long and healthy life.  (i prayed for you and your daughter, and will try to remember you both in future prayers.)
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your an abortion psycho!!!! how many questions about aboution do u have on here? i dont even want to waste my time counting them all! you are crazy and have some serious problems! u need to get some help. honestly abortion is none of your freakin buisness!\nPEOPLE DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS GUY!!!!!!!!!!!
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Yes, unwanted pregnancies will decrease dramatically. Abortion is almost the preferred method of birth control these days. Women should be more responsible for their actions. After all, it's not just their life they're deciding about.
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I am pro-choice too but if it's not your choice then it's not the same. You can't let him make you feel pushed into this. It's a big decision. OK there's a risk that it will be still born of miscarry. But if there is any chance that you will have a perfectly healthy baby then You should do what you feel in your heart is right. Sit him down and explain how you feel and maybe he'll see where your coming from. You need top think about yourself and that little child inside you. If you do abort it, you'll always be wondering if it might have been OK.After all you have already got one perfectly healthy child, who's to say you can't have another? Just don't make any rash decisions. There's too much at stake.
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She didn't ask for alternatives. She just asked for an answer however sad or wrong you may think it is it isn't for you  to judge. The third trimester is the \nlatest. Please know that any page describing it is graphic in the nature that the abortion is performed but if you feel this is the solution don't let it discourage your decision. Webmd is a good page to try. Good luck and please don't make this decision lightly.
758645
That's a good question and I appreciate your respect.  I must first make a disclaimer that I am a guy and have never been pregnant, so I can't claim what emotional bonds there are between a pro-choice mother and her unborn child.  That being said, I think it is the potential of the child that I would love.  What it had a chance to be and experience once it was born.  It would be wonderful to see it develop into that potential through ultrasounds etc. To answer your questions: Yes, I would think of it as alive.  Yes, I would think of it as a mass of tissue with the potential to become a human being (I assume you are asking about the first trimester, when aborting is currently legal).  Yes, I cold still bond with it, knowing that it will be loved and grow up to perhaps be a wonderful person some day.  I don't think the same is true of a child that grows up unwanted/unloved/abused/addicted to drugs etc.  I don't think I am a hypocryte just because I don't force my beliefs on others.  I am pro-choice, not pro abortion.
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Sorry, I just couldn't resist looking at your past questions and you didn't seem to want an abortion 3 weeks ago.  Can I ask what changed your mind and why you say you need one not want one?