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Home Tips > Tips By Category > Tips you can implement daily In regulated legal clinics, there is a small risk of serious complications from the most common surgical abortion procedures. These risks include perforated uterus, septic shock, sterility, and death.
The exact risk and type of complications depend on the abortion method as well as the clinical and hygienic conditions.
The rate of hysterectomies (removal of the uterus) for all abortion is less than 1 in 1,000 cases, and death occurs in fewer than 1 in 200,000 cases.
The complication rate for abortion is extremely low. For first-trimester procedures, the overall complication rate is less than one percent.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a vacuum aspiration abortion performed in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy is seven times safer than giving birth and 1oo times safer than an appendectomy.
Studies have found that in developed countries where abortion is legal, the risk of serious physical complications of an abortion is less than 1%.
In countries where abortion is illegal, this percentage is much higher, although the exact figure is unknown. This is likely due to the inherently dangerous nature of unregulated illegal surgery by doctors of dubious skill or by persons with no or insufficient medical training.
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