ABORTION Reasons for, advantages and disadvantages of abortions ABORTION ? An abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by the removal or expulsion from the uterus of a foetus or embryo. An abortion can occur spontaneously due to complications during pregnancy or can be induced. ?Medical ?Surgical ?other METHODS OF CARRYING OUT AN ABORTION METHODS OF CARRYING OUT ABORTIONS MEDICAL METHOD ?Medical abortions" are non-surgical abortions that use pharmaceutical drugs, and are only effective in the first trimester of pregnancy. METHODS OF CARRYING OUT ABORTIONS SURGICAL METHOD ? In the first 12 weeks, suction-aspiration or vacuum abortion is the most common method. In manual vacuum aspiration