Meaning of Abortion - What it is, Definition and Concept

Abortion is any natural or provoked expulsion of the fetus in the initial period of intrauterine life, that is, during the first two trimesters of pregnancy , when the embryo has no chance of survival.

Abortion is a term that originates from the Latin word abortus, that is composed of the prefix ab which means "deprivation" and the root ortus which translates as "birth", so the translation of abortion is " birth deprivation ".We can say that abortion is premature termination and end of pregnancy .

In a broad sense, the term abortion is also used in reference to the termination or badness of any activity.

Abortion is the death of a person in the mother's womb produced at any time during pregnancy, considering pregnancy the stage that begins at fertilization and ends at birth .

Abortion was formerly used as a practice for birth control, but in the nineteenth century it was allowed and accepted in life-threatening cases of the mother.In the twentieth century the abortion was legalized in certain medical or social situations.

The first legal abortions by express will of the mother happened in Russia, then in Japan and some areas of Europe.The decriminalization also extended to America for legal reasons such as infanticide, life risk of the mother, rape, incest, alterations in the genetic type fetus, single and low-income mothers.

The abortion is a practice that can be induced when the life of the embryo is interrupted until the 22nd week of pregnancy; or can be therapeutic when done for medical reasons . Induction can be done through a medical abortion , a surgical abortion or through medication.

There are also spontaneous abortions which are those that happen without intentionality, but are caused by infectious or systematic diseases of the mother, fetal death or by congenital or genetic abnormalities of the embryo.25% of Natural or spontaneous abortions happen during the first trimester of pregnancy.