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  1. Therapeutic abortion; Elective abortion ... Elective abortions are those initiated by personal choice. Roughly 20% of all pregnancies (excluding miscarriages) end in elective abortion. ...
  2. Threatened miscarriage; Threatened spontaneous abortion ... of pregnancy. This is known as a threatened abortion. Most of these pregnancies go on to term ...
  3. Abortion - spontaneous; Spontaneous abortion
  4. Abortion - inevitable
  5. Incomplete abortion
  6. Complete abortion ... This type of abortion usually does not need medical help.
  7. An abortion is a procedure to end a pregnancy by removing the fetus and placenta from the mother's womb. There are many forms of abortion -- sometimes an abortion occurs on its own (spontaneously), ...
  8. An infected abortion occurs when an infection develops in the material from the fetus or placenta or the lining of the uterus (endometrium). See also: Incomplete abortion Inevitable abortion
  9. An abortion performed with dilation and curettage.
  10. ... Purulent endometritis Endometritis may also occur from: Childbirth Abortion (therapeutic, elective, or spontaneous) Intrauterine device (IUD) insertion ...
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