trimesters. The first trimester begins after the women's last menstrual c!
             ycle and ends at about the fourteenth week into the pregnancy. A study shows that eighty-eight percent of all women have their abortions in this trimester. Within the first two weeks of the pregnancy, about fifty percent of the women have it then. The second trimester begins around the fifteenth week into the pregnancy and goes to about the thirty-second week. Women who have their abortions around this time usually have either just found out they were pregnant or were scared to tell anyone about it. The third trimester begins around the thirty-third week and lasts up until birth, or around the forty-ninth week. This is the rarest trimester in which women have abortions. This is the most painful trimester when terminating a pregnancy due to the growth and size of the fetus.
             Many doctors perform abortions in special clinics specifically designed for aborting women. One type of abortion a women has an option of having is suction curettage. This method is performed from the sixth week into the pregnancy up until the fourteenth week, in which the first trimester ends. This procedure, one of the shortest, takes only around ten minutes to remove the fetus from the woman's uterus, the place where the baby develops. Dilators are gently inserted into the woman's cervix which gradually stretch the cervix. After one size is inserted and the cervix has maintained that size, a larger dilator is inserted. This process is continues for ten minutes. Then the fetus is ready to be aborted. A suction is used to remove the unborn child by removing the fluids in which the fetus is located in.
             Women are usually medicated during the task. One medication that is used in abortions is called prostaglandin. This relaxes and eases the pain the woman experiences while aborting. Side effects from this medication are uterine bleeding, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. While only som...