What is the Safest Abortion method in the first trimester of pregnancy?
Patients in the first trimester (3 to 9 weeks) have a choice of having the abortion procedure performed safely with either the surgical or abortion pill method. Both are very safe procedures with advantages and disadvantages of both. Patients undergo surgical procedure because it is faster and they are able to resume their normal activities the same day or the next day. If 6 weeks pregnant or less, patients are able to use tampons or have sex the next day. Bleeding is less with surgical procedures and there is less than a .5% failure rate. The abortion pill procedure takes longer to finish, and bleeding normally lasts 10 to 14 days but can last up to 30 to 69 days. The failure rate is between 1 to 5% and with that requires a surgical aspiration procedure.
