PSYCH 422 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Calendar-Based Contraceptive Methods, Coitus Interruptus, Cervix
21 Feb 2017
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Progestin- only: mini pills, implants, and shots prevent the ovaries from releasing an egg and thicken cervical mucus so that sperm cannot enter the uterus, 40% of all undergraduate college women, clarke, fall 2016. At failure rate: fertility awareness methods (rhythm) Performed intentionally by medical or surgical means: therapeutic. Performed to safeguard a woman"s life or health: when the pregnancy endangers the mother"s life, clarke, fall 2016, elective. Performed when the woman"s health is not at risk: voluntary abortion; using d&c, vacuum (1st trimester) or medicine like misoprostol or mifepristone, induced abortions, surgical. Currently, more common than medical abortions: different methods depending on age of fetus, vacuum aspiration (~90%), dilation and evacuation, induced labor, medical and hysterectomy. Administering drugs that cause the death and expulsion of the fetus in a manner that ensembles a miscarriage: vacuum aspiration- surgical procedure most commonly used in 1st trimester, among first 12 weeks (90%, medical abortion with, #1 mifepristone.
