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Where do people even get abortions?
17/f
I'm not pregnant, but I've always wondered about this. Where do people even get abortions?? At the nearby clinic? Anywhere? Hospital? Because when I think about it, I feel like clinic isn't the best way to go because I think of them as... Just general doctors, not doctors that give you abortion pills.
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There's this organization called planned parenthood and 3% of what they do is abortions. Other than that, doctors can schedule meetings with other surgeons.
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You have a meeting with your doctor that sets you up with another doctor. But it gets done in your hospital. IF you were thinking it i would go with the surgery. not the pill., as i know a few people who did the pill and the baby was STILL Alive after the pills finished.
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Depends on where you live, and what the rules are.
Generally, doctors have to be trained to provide abortions - in most places this training results in a license to perform abortions. In some places, nurses can also become licensed abortion providers.
When people talk about going to a clinic for an abortion, they almost always mean they are going to a woman's health clinic or an abortion clinic - a special clinic with the right equipment, properly trained staff, and enough security to keep out those who want to physically harm abortion providers and their patients. A clinic is just a word that means they deal with outpatients. Even your family doctor's office is a clinic, and hospitals have clinics too. It's the area where patients are diagnosed and treated who don't needs beds.
Some hospitals have doctors on staff who provide abortions. In my country, Canada, about 20% of hospitals have a doctor or nurse licensed to perform abortions. In the states, that number is closer to 10% - so most women must go to a special clinic to have an abortion - and in some place, especially rural areas, there are few, or none, of those clinics and women will have to travel quite a long ways to access an abortion provider.
It's important to remember that doctors who perform abortions are just normal doctors. Most of them just family doctors, or sometimes gynecologists - the only difference is they took a special course on how to perform abortions or was trained by another doctor who knew. Doctors who provide abortions often provide other health care, like birth control, STI checks and family planning support as well. I live in Canada, and although some doctors do provide abortions full time here, most have a mixed practice and help their patients in many ways, not just abortion. They might even provide prenatal care to patients and delivery babies.
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Its probably different in different cities and countries. Here in the UK you go to your GP who will refer you to the appropriate person. Depending how far along you are you either go to hospital or a specialist surgery for a minor procedure to taking the pill which the doctor fully explains in terms of both what to expect once the pill has been taken and afterwards.
There are different procedures for different stages of the pregnancy within the time frame of abortion that the law specifies. So pretty much either a hospital or a specialist surgery.
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