Gugur kandungan: Perbedaan antara revisi

Dikatakan bahwa aborsi di negara-[[negara maju]], yang mengizinkannya merupakan salah satu prosedur medis yang paling aman dalam bidang kedokteran.<ref name="lancet-grimes">{{Cite journal |last1=Grimes |first1=DA |last2=Benson |first2=J |last3=Singh |first3=S |last4=Romero |first4=M |last5=Ganatra |first5=B |last6=Okonofua |first6=FE |last7=Shah |first7=IH |doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(06)69481-6 |title=Unsafe abortion: The preventable pandemic |journal=The Lancet |volume=368 |issue=9550 |pages=1908–1919 |year=2006 |pmid=17126724 |url=http://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/publications/general/lancet_4.pdf |format=PDF |access-date=2017-01-10 |archive-date=2011-06-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629040442/http://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/publications/general/lancet_4.pdf |dead-url=no }}</ref><ref name="Ray2014">{{cite journal |last1=Raymond |first1=EG |last2=Grossman |first2=D |last3=Weaver |first3=MA |last4=Toti |first4=S |last5=Winikoff |first5=B |title=Mortality of induced abortion, other outpatient surgical procedures and common activities in the United States |journal=Contraception |date=November 2014 |volume=90 |issue=5 |pages=476–479 |pmid=25152259 |doi=10.1016/j.contraception.2014.07.012}}</ref> Metode-metode modern memanfaatkan obat atau bedah dalam pelaksanaan aborsi.<ref name=1st_Methods>{{cite journal |last1=Kulier |first1=R |last2=Kapp |first2=N |last3=Gülmezoglu |first3=AM |last4=Hofmeyr |first4=GJ |last5=Cheng |first5=L |last6=Campana |first6=A |title=Medical methods for first trimester abortion. |journal=Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews |date=9 November 2011 |issue=11 |pages=CD002855 |pmid=22071804 |doi=10.1002/14651858.CD002855.pub4}}</ref> Obat mifepriston dikombinasikan dengan [[prostaglandin]] kemungkinan sama aman dan efektifnya dengan bedah selama trimester pertama dan kedua kehamilan.<ref name=1st_Methods/><ref name=Kapp2013/> [[Pengaturan kelahiran]], seperti pil atau [[Intrauterine device (IUD)|alat intrauterin]], mungkin saja digunakan segera setelah aborsi.<ref name=Kapp2013>{{cite journal|last1=Kapp |first1=N |last2=Whyte |first2=P |last3=Tang |first3=J |last4=Jackson |first4=E |last5=Brahmi |first5=D |title=A review of evidence for safe abortion care |journal=Contraception |date=September 2013 |volume=88 |issue=3 |pages=350–63 |pmid=23261233 |doi=10.1016/j.contraception.2012.10.027}}</ref> Dilaporkan bahwa abortus provokatus, jika dilakukan secara aman dan legal, tidak meningkatkan risiko terkait masalah fisik ataupun [[kesehatan mental|mental]] pada jangka panjang.<ref name=BMJ2014/> Sebaliknya, aborsi yang tidak aman mengakibatkan 47.000 [[kematian maternal|kematian]] dan 5 juta kasus perawatan di rumah sakit setiap tahunnya.<ref name=BMJ2014>{{Cite journal |last1=Lohr |first1=PA |last2=Fjerstad |first2=M |last3=Desilva |first3=U |last4=Lyus |first4=R |title=Abortion |journal = BMJ | volume = 348 | page = f7553 | year = 2014 | doi = 10.1136/bmj.f7553}}</ref><ref name="OBGY09">{{Cite journal |last1=Shah |first1=I |last2=Ahman |first2=E |title=Unsafe abortion: global and regional incidence, trends, consequences, and challenges |journal=Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada |volume=31 |issue=12 |pages=1149–58 |date=December 2009 |pmid=20085681 |url=http://www.sogc.org/jogc/abstracts/full/200912_WomensHealth_1.pdf |format=PDF |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716212405/http://www.sogc.org/jogc/abstracts/full/200912_WomensHealth_1.pdf |archivedate=16 July 2011 |df=dmy }}</ref> [[Organisasi Kesehatan Dunia]] merekomendasikan tersedianya aborsi yang aman dan legal bagi semua wanita.<ref name=WHOPolicy2012>{{cite book |author=World Health Organization |title=Safe abortion: technical and policy guidance for health systems |date=2012 |publisher=World Health Organization |location=Geneva |isbn=9789241548434 |page=8 |edition=2nd |url=http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/70914/1/9789241548434_eng.pdf?ua=1 |format=PDF |access-date=2017-01-10 |archive-date=2015-01-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150116223512/http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/70914/1/9789241548434_eng.pdf?ua=1 |dead-url=no }}</ref>

Sekitar 56 juta aborsi terjadi setiap tahunnya di seluruh dunia,<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Sedgh|first1=Gilda|last2=Bearak|first2=Jonathan|last3=Singh|first3=Susheela|last4=Bankole|first4=Akinrinola|last5=Popinchalk|first5=Anna|last6=Ganatra|first6=Bela|last7=Rossier|first7=Clémentine|last8=Gerdts|first8=Caitlin|last9=Tunçalp|first9=Özge|last10=Johnson|first10=Brooke Ronald|last11=Johnston|first11=Heidi Bart|last12=Alkema|first12=Leontine|title=Abortion incidence between 1990 and 2014: global, regional, and subregional levels and trends|journal=The Lancet|date=May 2016|doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30380-4}}</ref> dengan hampir setengahnya dilakukan secara tidak aman.<ref name="Sedgh 2012">{{Cite journal |last1=Sedgh |first1=G. |last2=Singh |first2=S. |last3=Shah |first3=I. H. |last4=Åhman |first4=E. |last5=Henshaw |first5=S. K. |last6=Bankole |first6=A. |doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(11)61786-8 |title=Induced abortion: Incidence and trends worldwide from 1995 to 2008 |journal=The Lancet |volume=379 |issue=9816 |pages=625–632 |year=2012 |pmid=22264435 |url=http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/Sedgh-Lancet-2012-01.pdf |format=PDF |quote=Because few of the abortion estimates were based on studies of random samples of women, and because we did not use a model-based approach to estimate abortion incidence, it was not possible to compute confidence intervals based on standard errors around the estimates. Drawing on the information available on the accuracy and precision of abortion estimates that were used to develop the subregional, regional, and worldwide rates, we computed intervals of certainty around these rates (webappendix). We computed wider intervals for unsafe abortion rates than for safe abortion rates. The basis for these intervals included published and unpublished assessments of abortion reporting in countries with liberal laws, recently published studies of national unsafe abortion, and high and low estimates of the numbers of unsafe abortion developed by WHO. |access-date=2017-01-10 |archive-date=2012-02-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120206043854/http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/Sedgh-Lancet-2012-01.pdf |dead-url=no }}</ref> Angka atau tingkat aborsi hanya berubah sedikit antara tahun 2003 dan 2008,<ref name="Sedgh 2012" /> setelah sebelumnya mengalami penurunan selama setidaknya dua dasawarsa karena meningkatnya akses atas pengendalian kelahiran dan [[keluarga berencana]].<ref name="worldtrends2007">{{Cite journal |vauthors=Sedgh G, Henshaw SK, Singh S, Bankole A, Drescher J |title=Legal abortion worldwide: incidence and recent trends |journal=Int Fam Plan Perspect |volume=33 |issue=3 |pages=106–116 |date=September 2007 |pmid=17938093 |doi=10.1363/ifpp.33.106.07 |url=http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/3310607.html |access-date=2017-01-10 |archive-date=2009-08-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090819122933/http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/3310607.html |dead-url=no }}</ref> Pada tahun 2008, 40% wanita di seluruh dunia memiliki akses untuk melakukan aborsi secara legal tanpa batasan tertentu sebagai alasan.<ref name=IJGO10/> Setiap negara yang mengizinkan aborsi memiliki batasan berbeda mengenai seberapa terlambat aborsi kehamilan diperbolehkan.<ref name=IJGO10>{{Cite journal|vauthors=Culwell KR, Vekemans M, de Silva U, Hurwitz M |title=Critical gaps in universal access to reproductive health: Contraception and prevention of unsafe abortion |journal=International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics |volume=110 |pages=S13–16 |date=July 2010 |pmid=20451196 |doi=10.1016/j.ijgo.2010.04.003}}</ref>

Sejak zaman kuno, aborsi telah dilakukan dengan menggunakan obat-obatan herbal, benda-benda tajam, dengan [[cedera|paksaan]], atau juga [[ramuan tradisional|metode-metode tradisional]] lainnya.<ref name="Management of Abortion, Chp 1">{{cite book|chapter=1. Abortion and medicine: A sociopolitical history|isbn=978-1-4443-1293-5|publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.]]|year=2009|location=[[Oxford, United Kingdom]]|title=Management of Unintended and Abnormal Pregnancy|edition=1st|editors=M Paul, ES Lichtenberg, L Borgatta, DA Grimes, PG Stubblefield, MD Creinin|first=Carole|last=Joffe|url=http://media.wiley.com/product_data/excerpt/62/14051769/1405176962.pdf|format=PDF|archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/62bppK1Iw?url=http://media.wiley.com/product_data/excerpt/62/14051769/1405176962.pdf|archivedate=2011-10-21|deadurl=no|access-date=2017-11-28}}</ref> Terdapat perbedaan [[hukum aborsi]] dan [[agama dan aborsi|pandangan agama]] ataupun budaya di seluruh dunia. Di beberapa wilayah hukum, aborsi dilegalkan dalam kasus tertentu seperti pemerkosaan, [[kelainan bawaan|masalah pada janin]], [[status sosial ekonomi|kemiskinan]], risiko pada kesehatan sang ibu, ataupun [[inses]].<ref name="Dev98-07">{{Cite journal |last1=Boland |first1=R. |last2=Katzive |first2=L. |doi=10.1363/ifpp.34.110.08 |title=Developments in Laws on Induced Abortion: 1998–2007 |journal=International Family Planning Perspectives |volume=34 |issue=3 |pages=110–120 |year=2008 |pmid=18957353 |url=http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/3411008.html |access-date=2017-01-10 |archive-date=2011-10-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007221828/http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/3411008.html |dead-url=no }}</ref> Di berbagai daerah di dunia terjadi banyak [[perdebatan aborsi|perdebatan]] terkait isu moral, etika, dan hukum dalam hal aborsi.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Nixon|first1=edited by Frederick Adolf Paola, Robert Walker, Lois LaCivita|title=Medical ethics and humanities|date=2010|publisher=Jones and Bartlett Publishers|location=Sudbury, Mass.|isbn=9780763760632|page=249|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=9pM2pw-2wl4C&pg=PA249|access-date=2017-01-10|archive-date=2023-08-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230810101023/https://books.google.ca/books?id=9pM2pw-2wl4C&pg=PA249|dead-url=no}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Johnstone|first1=Megan-Jane|title=Bioethics a nursing perspective|date=2009|publisher=Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier|location=Sydney, N.S.W.|isbn=9780729578738|page=228|edition=5th|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=EG-Yg1xDYakC&pg=PA228|quote=Although abortion has been legal in many countries for several decades now, its moral permissibilities continues to be the subject of heated public debate.|access-date=2017-01-10|archive-date=2023-08-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230810100944/https://books.google.ca/books?id=EG-Yg1xDYakC&pg=PA228|dead-url=no}}</ref> Mereka yang [[gerakan antiaborsi|menentang aborsi]] umumnya bersikukuh bahwa embrio ataupun janin adalah seorang pribadi manusia dengan [[hak untuk hidup]] dan mereka menyamakan aborsi dengan suatu [[pembunuhan]].<ref>{{Cite news |author=Pastor Mark Driscoll |title=What do 55 million people have in common? |publisher=Fox News |date=18 October 2013 |accessdate=2 July 2014 |url=http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/10/18/what-do-55-million-people-have-in-common/ |archive-date=2014-08-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140831022138/http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/10/18/what-do-55-million-people-have-in-common/ |dead-url=no }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |first=Dale |last=Hansen |title=Abortion: Murder, or Medical Procedure? |publisher=Huffington Post |date=18 March 2014 |accessdate=2 July 2014 |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dale-hansen/abortion-murder-or-medica_b_4986637.html |archive-date=2014-07-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714230359/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dale-hansen/abortion-murder-or-medica_b_4986637.html |dead-url=no }}</ref> Sedangkan mereka yang mendukung legalitas aborsi umumnya berpandangan bahwa seorang wanita memiliki hak untuk mengambil keputusan atas tubuhnya sendiri.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Sifris|first1=Ronli Noa|title=Reproductive Freedom, Torture and International Human Rights Challenging the Masculinisation of Torture.|date=2013|publisher=Taylor and Francis|location=Hoboken|isbn=9781135115227|page=3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9pVWAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA3}}</ref>

* Pengeluaran hasil konsepsi sebelum janin dapat hidup di luar kandungan (berat kurang dari 500 gram atau kurang dari 20 minggu).<ref>{{cite book|last=Astari|first=Rika|last2=Triana|first2=Winda|date=2018|url=http://eprints.uad.ac.id/19039/1/Kamus%20Kesehatan_11Nop18.pdf|title=Kamus Kesehatan Indonesia-Arab|place=[[Sleman]], [[Yogyakarta]]|publisher=Trussmedia Grafika|isbn=978-602-5747-22-9|edition=|pages=3|language=|coauthors=|access-date=2022-02-02|archive-date=2022-05-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220528040907/http://eprints.uad.ac.id/19039/1/Kamus%20Kesehatan_11Nop18.pdf|dead-url=no}}</ref> Dari segi [[medikolegal]] maka istilah abortus, keguguran, dan kelahiran prematur mempunyai arti yang sama dan menunjukkan pengeluaran janin sebelum usia kehamilan yang cukup.

[[Abortus imminen]] adalah perdarahan bercak yang menunjukkan ancaman terhadap kelangsungan sauatu kehamilan. Dalam kondisi seperti ini kehamilan masih mungkin berlanjut atau dipertahankan. (Syaifudin. Bari Abdul, 2000)

* ''[[Abortus insipiens]]'', Peristiwa [[perdarahan]] [[uterus]] pada kehamilan sebelum 20 minggu dengan adanya dilatasi serviks [[uteri]] yang meningkat, tetapi hasil konsepsi masih dalam uterus.

* ''[[Abortus inkompletus]]'', Pengeluaran sebagian hasil konsepsi pada kehamilan sebelum 20 minggu dengan masih ada sisa tertinggal dalam uterus.

* ''[[Abortus kompletus]]'', semua hasil konsepsi sudah dikeluarkan.

'''[[Abortus provokatus]]''' merupakan jenis abortus yang sengaja dibuat/dilakukan, yaitu dengan cara menghentikan kehamilan sebelum janin dapat hidup di luar tubuh ibu.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Ristica|first=Octa Dwienda|last2=Juliarti|first2=Widya|date=2015|url=https://www.google.co.id/books/edition/Prinsip_Etika_dan_Moralitas_dalam_Pelaya/4WvkCAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Abortus+provocatus+merupakan+jenis+abortus+yang+sengaja+dibuat/dilakukan,&pg=PA100&printsec=frontcover|title=Prinsip Etika dan Moralitas dalam Pelayanan Kebidanan|publisher=Deepublish|isbn=9786022806745|pages=100|url-status=live|access-date=2022-02-02|archive-date=2023-08-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230810100949/https://www.google.co.id/books/edition/Prinsip_Etika_dan_Moralitas_dalam_Pelaya/4WvkCAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Abortus+provocatus+merupakan+jenis+abortus+yang+sengaja+dibuat/dilakukan,&pg=PA100&printsec=frontcover|dead-url=no}}</ref> Pada umumnya bayi dianggap belum dapat hidup di luar [[kandungan]] apabila usia kehamilan belum mencapai 28 minggu, atau [[berat badan]] bayi kurang dari 1000 gram, walaupun terdapat beberapa kasus bayi dengan berat dibawah 1000 gram dapat terus hidup. Pengelompokan Abortus provokatus secara lebih spesifik:

Abortus provokatus kriminalis sering terjadi pada [[kehamilan]] yang tidak dikehendaki. Ada beberapa alasan wanita tidak menginginkan kehamilannya. Alasan-alasan ini hanya menunjukkan ketidakpedulian seorang wanita, yang hanya memikirkan kepentingan dirinya sendiri:

* Kehamilan dikarena luar nikah[[perzinahan]].

* Masalah [[ekonomi]], khawatir menambah anak berartikarena akantakut menambahtidak mampu membiayai dan bebandianggap ekonomimembebani keluarga.

* Masalah [[sosialkarier]], misalnya[[sekolah]]. khawatirMenambah adanyaanak penyakitdianggap turunan,mengganggu janin[[karier]] cacat.atau kegiatan [[sekolah]]

* Hukum yang memperbolehkan abortus atas indikasi sosio-medik, seperti di Eslandia, Swedia, Inggris, ScandinaviaSkandinavia, dan India.

* Hukum yang memperbolehkan abortus atas permintaan tanpa memperhatikan indikasi-indikasi lainnya (Abortion on requst atau Abortion on demand), seperti di Bulgaris, HongariaHungaria, USSR, Singapura.

* Dewi, Made Heny Urmila. 1997.

* Prawirohardjo, Sarwono. 2002.

* Pradono, Julianty et al.

* Safe Motherhood Newsletter.

* Utomo, Budi et al.

* World Health Organization.

* "Abortion is the spontaneous or induced termination of pregnancy before fetal viability. Because popular use of the word abortion implies a deliberate pregnancy termination, some prefer the word miscarriage to refer to spontaneous fetal loss before viability&nbsp;... The National Center for Health Statistics, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the World Health Organization (WHO) define abortion as pregnancy termination prior to 20 weeks' gestation or a fetus born weighing less than 500 g. Despite this, definitions vary widely according to state laws." {{cite book|editor1-last=Schorge|editor1-first=John O.|editor2-first=Joseph I.|editor2-last=Schaffer|editor3-first=Lisa M.|editor3-last=Halvorson|editor4-first=Barbara L.|editor4-last=Hoffman|editor5-first=Karen D.|editor5-last=Bradshaw|editor6-first=F. Gary|editor6-last=Cunningham|year=2008|title=Williams Gynecology|url=https://archive.org/details/williamsgynecolo0000unse_u2n9|edition=1|publisher=McGraw-Hill Medical|isbn=978-0-07-147257-9|chapter=6. First-Trimester Abortion}}

* "The spontaneous or induced termination of pregnancy before the fetus reaches a viable age." {{cite web

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* "[T]he termination of a pregnancy after, accompanied by, resulting in, or closely followed by the death of the embryo or fetus". {{cite web

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* "Induced termination of pregnancy, involving destruction of the embryo or fetus." "abortion." {{cite book |title=The American Heritage Science Dictionary |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780618455041 |location=Boston |publisher=Houghton Mifflin |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-618-45504-1 }}

* "Interruption of pregnancy before the fetus has attained a stage of viability, usually before the 24th gestational week." "abortion." {{cite book |title=Cambridge Dictionary of Human Biology and Evolution |url=https://archive.org/details/cambridgediction00mail |location=Cambridge; New York |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2005 |oclc=54374716 }}

* "[A] situation where a fetus leaves the uterus before it is fully developed, especially during the first 28 weeks of pregnancy, or a procedure which causes this to happen&nbsp;... [T]o have an abortion to have an operation to make a fetus leave the uterus during the first period of pregnancy." {{cite book |contribution="abortion" |title=Dictionary of Medical Terms |url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofmedi0000unse_b9y1 |location=London |publisher=A & C Black |year=2005 |oclc=55634250 }}

* "Although the term abortion is generic and implies a premature termination of pregnancy for any reason, the lay public better understands the word 'miscarriage' for involuntary fetal loss or fetal wastage." {{cite book |title=The Dictionary of Modern Medicine |url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofmode0000sege_e9e7 |page=[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofmode0000sege_e9e7/page/3 3] |year=1992 |publisher=Parthenon Publishing |isbn=1-85070-321-3 }}

* "The termination of pregnancy or premature expulsion of the products of conception by any means, usually before fetal viability." {{cite book |title=Churchill's Medical Dictionary|url=https://archive.org/details/churchillsmedica0000unse|page=[https://archive.org/details/churchillsmedica0000unse/page/3 3]|year=1989|isbn=0-443-08691-5|publisher=Churchill Livingstone}}

* "An abortion refers to the termination of a pregnancy. It can be ''induced'' (see Definitions, Terminology, and Reference Resources) through a pharmacological or a surgical procedure, or it may be spontaneous (also called miscarriage)." "Definitions of abortion vary across and within countries as well as among different institutions. Language used to refer to abortion often also reflects societal and political opinions and not only scientific knowledge (Grimes and Gretchen 2010). Popular use of the word abortion implies a deliberate pregnancy termination, whereas a miscarriage is used to refer to spontaneous fetal loss when the fetus is not viable (i.e., not yet unable to survive independently outside the womb)." {{cite web

* "1. a. The expulsion or removal from the womb of a developing embryo or fetus, spec. (Med.) in the period before it is capable of independent survival, occurring as a result either of natural causes (more fully spontaneous abortion) or of a deliberate act (more fully induced abortion); the early or premature termination of pregnancy with loss of the fetus; an instance of this." {{cite book |title=[[Oxford English Dictionary]] |chapter= abortion, n.| |chapterurl=http://www.oed.com/viewdictionaryentry/Entry/503 |edition=Third |date=September 2009 |orig-year=online version September 2011 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |access-date=2017-01-10 |archive-date=2023-08-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230810100955/https://www.oed.com/dictionary/abortion_n |dead-url=no }}

* "[A]n operation or other procedure to terminate pregnancy before the fetus is viable" or "[T]he premature termination of pregnancy by spontaneous or induced expulsion of a nonviable fetus from the uterus". {{cite web

* "a medical operation to end a pregnancy so that the baby is not born alive". ''[[Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English]]'', [http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/abortion online edition] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029224903/http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/abortion |date=2013-10-29 }}.

* "The deliberate termination of a pregnancy, usually before the embryo or fetus is capable of independent life." {{cite book |title=The American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy |edition=3rd |publisher=[[Houghton Mifflin Company]] |year=2005 |url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/abortion |access-date=2017-01-10 |archive-date=2013-10-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029210140/http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/abortion |dead-url=no }}

* "[T]he expulsion of a fetus from the uterus before it has reached the stage of viability (in human beings, usually about the 20th week of gestation)." {{cite web

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*"Abortion can be performed up to viability; thereafter, according to standard dictionaries, other terms should be used for uterine evacuation. "Late" is an acceptable descriptor for abortion; "late-term" is not. Gestational age should be expressed in completed cardinal days, weeks or months; ordinal numbers (and trimesters) should be avoided. "Intact D&E" should be used instead of the oxymoronic "partial-birth abortion" or the mysterious "D&X." " (internal citations removed) {{cite journal |title=Abortion jabberwocky: the need for better terminology |first=DA |last=Grimes |first2=G |last2=Stuart |journal=Contraception |volume=81 |issue=2 |year=2010 |pages=93–96 |pmid=20103443 |doi=10.1016/j.contraception.2009.09.005}}</ref>

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