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she talks about that 3 percent each and everyday many women or many people would agree in abortion, she says that within people all around the world we are to speak in what they would call something for example - you can call the abortion a baby you would call it a baby, call it a fetus you can also say it.

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Aspen Baker: A better way to talk about abortion

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This article gives and shows you different types of abortions. Can either choose painless or a pill. It will be just like a miscarriage. But a more safe way to take out the baby, slowly and fast.

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Abortion is a very safe procedure. Here are the facts about your options, the different kinds of abortion, and what to expect.

What are the different kinds of abortion?

Medication abortion, also known as the "abortion pill," is when you take medicines that you get from a trained doctor or nurse to end an early pregnancy. In-clinic abortion is done in a health center by a trained doctor or nurse. Both kinds of abortion are safe and effective.

First trimester abortion facts:

A doctor or nurse uses medical instruments and gentle suction to remove the pregnancy from your uterus.

You take pills that end your pregnancy and make your uterus expel the pregnancy tissue (like an early miscarriage).

It works more than 99% of the time.

8 weeks of pregnancy or less: it works about 94-98% of the time.

8-9 weeks: it works about 94-96% of the time.

9-10 weeks: it works about 91-93% of the time. If you're given an extra dose of medicine, it works about 99% of the time.

10-11 weeks: it works about 87% of the time. If you're given an extra dose of medicine, it works about 98% of the time.

How long does the abortion take?

The procedure usually takes about 10 minutes, but the full visit usually takes a few hours. In some cases, state law requires you to come to the health center for a separate visit before the abortion. Abortions later in pregnancy may take longer and require more visits to the health center.

Your appointment at the health center will take a few hours, and then they'll give you the pills. You take 2 different medicines, up to 2 days apart. You may take both of the medicines at home. Or you may take one or both of them at the health center. Most of the time the abortion is over within 24 hours after you take the second set of pills. You'll have a follow up visit or phone call to make sure the pills worked. In some cases, state law requires you to come to the health center for a separate visit before the abortion.

If you need an abortion and have passed your first trimester, you can learn about your in-clinic abortion options.

Is abortion safe?

Both in-clinic and medication abortions are very safe. In fact, abortion is one of the safest medical procedures out there. Overall, about 1 in 4 women in the U.S. will have an abortion by the time they're 45 years old.

Planned Parenthood leads the country with the most up-to-date medical standards and guidelines for health care, including abortion. We regularly review new medical research and get updates from groups like the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization, and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Serious problems after an abortion are very rare. But like any medicine or medical procedure, there are some risks. Learn more about the risks of in-clinic abortion and the risks of the abortion pill.

How will I feel after having an abortion?

You will get written after-care instructions and a phone number you can call if you have any questions or concerns. You may have to come back for a check up or lab work after your procedure.

Plan on resting after your abortion. You can usually go back to work, school and most other normal activities the next day. Avoid hard work or heavy exercise for a few days. You can use pads, tampons, or a menstrual cup for any bleeding - whatever's the most comfortable for you. But your nurse or doctor may recommend you use pads so you can track how much you're bleeding. You can have sex as soon as you feel ready.

Most people feel fine within a day or two, but it's common for bleeding to last for a week (or several weeks after the abortion pill). Cramping can happen for a few days.

It's totally normal to have a lot of different emotions after your abortion. Everyone's experience is different, and there's no "right" or "wrong" way to feel. Most people are relieved and don't regret their decision. Others may feel sadness, guilt, or regret after an abortion. Lots of people have all these feelings at different times. These feelings aren't unique to having an abortion. People feel many different emotions after giving birth, too.

Serious, long-term emotional problems after an abortion are rare. But everybody's different, and certain things can make coping with an abortion hard. Most people feel better if they have someone supportive to talk to after an abortion. But even if you don't think there's anybody in your life you can talk with, you're not alone. Your nurse or doctor can talk with you, or help you find a licensed counselor or a non-judgmental support group. You can also call Exhale or All-Options, free after-abortion talklines. They will give you confidential and non-judgmental emotional support after your abortion - no matter how you're feeling.

Will an abortion affect my health?

Abortion is safe. Unless there's a rare and serious complication that's not treated, there's no risk to your ability to have children in the future or to your overall health. Having an abortion doesn't increase your risk for breast cancer, and it doesn't cause depression or mental health issues. Abortions don't cause infertility either. In fact, it's possible to get pregnant quickly after you have an abortion. So it's a good idea to talk to your nurse or doctor about a birth control plan for after your abortion.

There are many myths out there about abortion. The nurses and doctors at Planned Parenthood can give you accurate information about any concerns you have.

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What facts about abortion do I need to know?

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Abortion is a very safe procedure. Here are the facts about your options, the different kinds of abortion, and what to expect. Medication abortion, also known as the "abortion pill," is when you take medicines that you get from a trained doctor or nurse to end an early pregnancy.

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Many points come up in the abortion debate. Here's a look at abortion from both sides: 10 arguments for abortion and 10 arguments against abortion, for a total of 20 statements that represent a range of topics as seen from both sides.

Pro-Life Arguments

1. Since life begins at conception,﻿﻿ abortion is akin to murder as it is the act of taking human life. Abortion is in direct defiance of the commonly accepted idea of the sanctity of human life.

2. No civilized society permits one human to intentionally harm or take the life of another human without punishment, and abortion is no different.

3. Adoption is a viable alternative to abortion and accomplishes the same result. And with 1.5 million American families wanting to adopt a child, there is no such thing as an unwanted child.

4. An abortion can result in medical complications later in life; the risk of ectopic pregnancies is increased if other factors such as smoking are present, the chance of a miscarriage increases in some cases,﻿﻿ and pelvic inflammatory disease also increases.﻿﻿

5. In the instance of rape and incest, taking certain drugs soon after the event can ensure that a woman will not get pregnant.﻿﻿ Abortion punishes the unborn child who committed no crime; instead, it is the perpetrator who should be punished.

6. Abortion should not be used as another form of contraception.

7. For women who demand complete control of their body, control should include preventing the risk of unwanted pregnancy through the responsible use of contraception or, if that is not possible, through abstinence.

8. Many Americans who pay taxes are opposed to abortion, therefore it's morally wrong to use tax dollars to fund abortion.

9. Those who choose abortions are often minors or young women with insufficient life experience to understand fully what they are doing. Many have lifelong regrets afterward.

10. Abortion sometimes causes psychological pain and stress.﻿﻿

Pro-Choice Arguments

1. Nearly all abortions take place in the first trimester when a fetus is attached by the placenta and umbilical cord to the mother.﻿﻿ As such, its health is dependent on her health, and cannot be regarded as a separate entity as it cannot exist outside her womb.

2. The concept of personhood is different from the concept of human life. Human life occurs at conception,﻿﻿ but fertilized eggs used for in vitro fertilization are also human lives and those not implanted are routinely thrown away. Is this murder, and if not, then how is abortion murder?

3. Adoption is not an alternative to abortion because it remains the woman's choice whether or not to give her child up for adoption. Statistics show that very few women who give birth choose to give up their babies; less than 3% of White unmarried women and less than 2% of Black​ unmarried women.

4. Abortion is a safe medical procedure. The vast majority of women who have an abortion do so in their first trimester.﻿﻿ Medical abortions have a very low risk of serious complications and do not affect a woman's health or future ability to become pregnant or give birth.﻿﻿

5. In the case of rape or incest, forcing a woman made pregnant by this violent act would cause further psychological harm to the victim.﻿﻿ Often a woman is too afraid to speak up or is unaware she is pregnant, thus the morning after pill is ineffective in these situations.

6. Abortion is not used as a form of contraception. Pregnancy can occur even with contraceptive use. Few women who have abortions do not use any form of birth control, and that is due more to individual carelessness than to the availability of abortion.﻿﻿

7. The ability of a woman to have control of her body is critical to civil rights. Take away her reproductive choice and you step onto a slippery slope. If the government can force a woman to continue a pregnancy, what about forcing a woman to use contraception or undergo sterilization?

8. Taxpayer dollars are used to enable poor women to access the same medical services as rich women, and abortion is one of these services. Funding abortion is no different from funding a war in the Mideast. For those who are opposed, the place to express outrage is in the voting booth.

9. Teenagers who become mothers have grim prospects for the future. They are much more likely to leave school; receive inadequate prenatal care; or develop mental health problems.﻿﻿

10. Like any other difficult situation, abortion creates stress. Yet the American Psychological Association found that stress was greatest prior to an abortion and that there was no evidence of post-abortion syndrome.﻿﻿

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Common Arguments for and Against Abortion

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A look at abortion from both sides, debating teen pregnancy, rape, incest, stress, health concerns, pregnancy complications, and ethics.

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Pro-Choice and Anti-Abortion: Both Sides of the 'Heartbeat' Bill

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This article talks about how religious people and other races still do abortions just because of financial problems and the percentages of U.S abortion patients, through the income, religion, family size, or even culture.

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Abortion is becoming increasingly concentrated among low-income women, which suggests the need for better contraceptive access and family planning counseling. It certainly appears these women are being underserved.

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The Guttmacher Institute studies trends in abortion service provision and patient demographics at the state and national level. By providing crucial data and policy analysis on the characteristics of women seeking abortions, the Institute strives to paint a more comprehensive picture of met and unmet reproductive health needs in the United States, especially among disadvantaged groups.

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The Alabama State Senate voted Tuesday to pass the nation's most restrictive abortion bill and -- before it was signed into law by the state's governor less than 24 hours later -- actress Busy Philipps took to social media to encourage women to speak about their abortion stories. With the hashtag #youknowme, a viral internet campaign was born - one some are comparing to the famous #MeToo movement.

"1 in 4 women have had an abortion," wrote Philipps on Twitter early Wednesday morning. "Many people think they don't know someone who has, but #youknowme. So let's do this: if you are also the 1 in 4, let's share it and start to end the shame. Use #youknowme and share your truth."

1 in 4 women have had an abortion. Many people think they don't know someone who has, but #youknowme. So let's do this: if you are also the 1 in 4, let's share it and start to end the shame. Use #youknowme and share your truth.
- Busy Philipps (@BusyPhilipps) May 15, 2019

The tweet, which has nearly 10,000 retweets and almost 50,000 likes, quickly went viral as women shared their abortions using #youknowme. Some users' stories centered around emotional tales of sexual abuse or assault.

"I was sixteen. I had been raped by a school volunteer," wrote user @TheSaltWell. "The fetus had caused internal bleeding and I was fifteen minutes from dying. I was a Sophomore in high school...dying because of the choice of one man. It was either me or the fetus that was going to die anyway. #youknowme."

I was sixteen. I had been raped by a school volunteer. The fetus had caused internal bleeding and I was fifteen minutes from dying. I was a Sophomore in high school...dying because of the choice of one man. It was either me or the fetus that was going to die anyway. #youknowme
- Jennifer N (@TheSaltWell) May 15, 2019

"F****** hard for me to put this out but, the condom was removed without my consent - I was drunk and asked far too late - and the morning after pill didn't work," user @alltheseasons_ wrote. "#Youknowme and it's time I didn't feel so ashamed of this."

Other women explained that they felt they were not ready to take on the responsibility of having a child. "I had an abortion," tweeted actress Linsey Godfrey. "I just simply wasn't in a place, financially or emotionally to take that on. I was and still am glad I had that choice because that's exactly what it was, it was my choice, my body. #YouKnowMe"

I had an abortion. I just simply wasn't in a place, financially or emotionally to take that on. I was and still am glad I had that choice because that's exactly what it was, it was my choice, my body. #YouKnowMe
- Linsey Godfrey (@linseygodfrey) May 16, 2019

While some users explained they wanted to keep the baby, but it wasn't medically possible. "I was 26, happily married and excited for the pregnancy, " wrote @seash1492. "We got a non compatible with life diagnosis - the skull didn't form. We ended the pregnancy at 13 weeks. We made the best choice for us and now have a happy and healthy baby #youknowme #1in4."

I was 26, happily married and excited for the pregnancy. We got a non compatible with life diagnosis - the skull didn't form. We ended the pregnancy at 13 weeks. We made the best choice for us and now have a happy and healthy baby #youknowme #1in4
- Michelle (@seash1492) May 16, 2019

Many celebrities and public figures joined in on the hashtag, including the former head of Planned Parenthood Cecile Richards, actress Amber Tamblyn, model Tess Holliday and former New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon. Nixon shared the story of her mother's illegal abortion, as well as the legal abortion of her wife using the hashtag.

Almost 60 years ago, my mother had an illegal abortion. It was too harrowing for her to discuss, but she made sure I knew it had happened. In 2010, my wife had a legal abortion after we found out her pregnancy was not viable. We cannot and will not go back. #YouKnowMe #YouKnowUs
- Cynthia Nixon (@CynthiaNixon) May 16, 2019

Lena Headey, who played Cersei Lannister on " Game of Thrones" even posted a screenshot of Philipps' tweet to Instagram, using the hashtag in the comment.

The #youknowme campaign isn't the first time Philipps has spoken about her abortion and tried to raise awareness of restrictive anti-abortion legislation. During last Tuesday's episode of her late-night talk show "Busy Tonight," Philipps spoke candidly about her opposition to Georgia's new controversial abortion law, which would prohibit abortion after a heartbeat is detected in an embryo. That is something that usually happens between five and six weeks into a women's pregnancy, before many women know they are pregnant.

During the emotional message, the star spoke to why the issue is so important to her - because she had an abortion as a teen. The language she used appears to be a jumping off point for the hashtag. "The statistic is that one in four women will have an abortion before age 45," she said to the camera last week. "That statistic sometimes surprises people, and maybe you're sitting there thinking, 'I don't know a woman who would have an abortion,' she said. "Well, you know me."

She also spoke about her abortion in her 2018 book "This Will Only Hurt a Little."

Both the Alabama and Georgia laws are the latest in an of state-level anti-abortion legislation that aim to dismantle , the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that constitutionally protects a woman's legal right to an abortion.

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Viral social media campaign #youknowme asks women to share their abortion stories

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Something strange happened to the abortion debate earlier this year.

Politicians, media outlets, and ordinary people began talking about "post-birth" or "fourth-trimester" abortion, claiming that doctors in America are killing babies after they're born. This would be murder, not abortion, and it's already illegal in every state. No abortion-rights group supports this.

But the idea that "post-birth" abortion is happening, and that abortion-rights supporters want it to be legal, made its way into speeches by President Donald Trump and to the floor of Congress, where Republicans have tried more than 70 times to get a vote on a bill that would protect abortion "survivors."

How did something that's already illegal, and that isn't abortion, become the subject of abortion legislation in Congress? The answer has to do with who's driving the abortion debate in America right now: Fox News.

When it comes to coverage of abortion, Fox News dominates the cable news landscape. The progressive media watchdog group Media Matters for America recently looked at coverage of common abortion-related topics on the big three cable networks: Fox, CNN, and MSNBC. It found that a full 94 percent of statements on those topics came from Fox.

The study, provided exclusively to Vox ahead of publication, suggests Fox dominates the abortion debate when it comes to content. When the authors looked at specific statements on abortion, they found commentators on MSNBC and CNN echoing statements made on Fox - from the false claim that Planned Parenthood has been proven to sell fetal body parts to the idea that recent laws allow abortion almost "up until the time you cut the umbilical cord." Overall, the study authors judged Fox News statements on abortion to be inaccurate 85 percent of the time - but they found that 67 percent of statements at CNN and 40 percent at MSNBC were inaccurate as well.

Overall, study author Sharon Kann told Vox that when other networks do talk about abortion, they're often just responding to what Fox News has already said or commenting on political controversies that Fox helped create. The result is American viewers don't hear about abortion as an issue of health or human rights but only as a topic of political debate. And because Fox is often first to the story, the network and its conservative-leaning hosts often get to define what that debate looks like.

On abortion, "Fox News is the loudest voice in the room," Kann said. "When other networks do engage, the terms are already set."

Fox News covers abortion more than other networks

For their study, released on Monday, Media Matters researchers looked at coverage of abortion between March 2, 2018, and February 28, 2019. Specifically, they looked at four topics that have been in the news in recent years: videos from the anti-abortion group Center for Medical Progress purporting to show that Planned Parenthood sells fetal tissue; abortion funding rules like the Hyde Amendment, which bars federal funding for most abortions; Planned Parenthood's role providing reproductive health services; and discussions or allegations of "extreme" abortion procedures, like "abortions until the moment of birth."

The authors found that Fox News had the vast majority of statements on these topics as well as the majority of more in-depth discussions of abortion. During the study period, Fox aired 334 segments with substantive discussion of one of the abortion topics, while MSNBC had 115 and CNN had just 77. As Kann and her co-author Julie Tulbert put it in a report on their research, "CNN and MSNBC are allowing Fox News to drive abortion-related conversations."

That effect shows up in what the networks are saying, not just how much they're saying it. For example, the study authors found that Fox News commentators and guests made numerous statements about the claim that Planned Parenthood sells fetal tissue (multiple investigations have found no evidence of this). But a similar statement also cropped up on CNN, with Marc Short, now chief of staff for Vice President Mike Pence, telling the audience about "certain parts of the pro-abortion industry that was marketing fetus body parts."

According to the researchers, that was actually the only statement CNN aired during the study period regarding the claim about Planned Parenthood and fetal tissue, meaning regular viewers of the network weren't given accurate information to counter Short's comment.

Other networks are essentially letting Fox define the conversation on abortion

Media Matters has conducted similar research in the past, Kann said, and consistently found that the majority of cable news coverage on abortion is on Fox News. The group has also found, over the years, that CNN and MSNBC often repeat misinformation rather than debunking it, she said.

This year, however, a new theme emerged. It started with efforts to loosen abortion restrictions in New York and Virginia. New York's Reproductive Health Act, passed in January, allows abortions after 24 weeks if a fetus is not viable or there is a risk to the pregnant person's health (previously, most abortions after that point were banned in the state). In Virginia, meanwhile, a bill proposed this year would have broadened the circumstances under which a pregnant person could get a third-trimester abortion.

These legislative efforts didn't initially get a lot of coverage on CNN or MSNBC, but Fox began covering them aggressively. The day after New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed his state's law, host Laura Ingraham said that it allowed abortion "up to birth" (the New York law allows abortions after 24 weeks only under select circumstances, such as a fetus that cannot survive outside the womb). Sean Hannity, meanwhile, said the following day that "the State of New York legalized late-term abortions, up to the ninth month. That will be called infanticide."

The narrative that the New York law allowed abortion until birth was already in place when, on January 29, the Virginia House of Delegates held a hearing on its bill. Del. Todd Gilbert, a Republican, asked questions reminiscent of this narrative, pressing the bill's sponsor, Democratic Del. Kathy Tran, about whether the law would allow a patient to get an abortion if she was "about to give birth" or was "dilating."

Tran seemed unprepared for the question and said that her bill would allow that. She later said that she misspoke: "I should have said, 'Clearly, no, because infanticide is not allowed in Virginia, and what would have happened in that moment would be a live birth.'"

But Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, muddied the waters further a few days later when he was asked to respond to Tran's answer.

"If a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen," the governor said. "The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that's what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother."

Many commentators, especially conservatives, interpreted his comments to mean that he supported infanticide. The governor's office later clarified to Vox that he was "absolutely not" referring to killing an infant, but was talking about "the tragic and extremely rare case in which a woman with a nonviable pregnancy or severe fetal abnormalities went into labor."

But President Trump and others began claiming that Northam and other Democrats thought it should be legal to kill babies after they were born. "We had the case of the governor of Virginia where he basically stated he would execute a baby after birth," Trump said in his State of the Union address in February.

Meanwhile, Fox News commentators picked up the governor's comments and used them to argue that both the New York and Virginia measures would allow killing babies after birth. For example, Jon Gabriel, editor-in-chief of the website Ricochet, said on Fox in February that, "what we've seen with Ralph Northam's comments and also the legislation that passed in New York, you have some Democrats who seem to be pushing third trimester abortion but fourth trimester."

At first, Kann said, CNN and MSNBC didn't talk much about the New York or Virginia laws. They did not, for example, give extensive coverage to activist efforts to pass the laws or to how they would affect patients. When they did begin to cover them, "it was after it became a political story" - thanks, in part to coverage on Fox News.

Three days after the hearing on the Virginia bill, CNN focused on conservative response to Northam's comments as part of a segment on broader controversy about the governor, with correspondent Sara Sidner saying "a lot of people took that, would say, OK, the baby is still alive and you're talking about killing a child that has already been born." Sidner added that "he's already faced quite a bit of criticism there."

Fox's role has a big impact on how people see abortion

The fact that Fox spends so much more time on abortion than other networks has a real effect on the larger media narrative about the procedure, Kann said. When Fox hosts make misleading claims about abortion and those show up in the State of the Union address, she explained, and "CNN and MSNBC haven't been talking about the substance of this, when they come to the narrative a month later, it really changes the terms of the conversation."

In particular, when other networks arrive at the story late, it becomes harder for them to correct false claims. "If you're contending with already repeated and ossified misinformation in the mind of viewers, it's so much more difficult to get the accurate information out there," Kann said.

Not everyone agrees that Fox, or conservative sources more generally, dominate abortion coverage. For example, Charles Camosy, a board member of Democrats for Life of America, wrote in a New York Times op-ed earlier this year that media outlets were mischaracterizing the views of advocates like him by using the term "anti-abortion" rather than "pro-life."

"This language allows critics to dismiss me and fellow pro-lifers as single-issue obsessives, which we are not," he wrote.

Other anti-abortion advocates say media coverage of the issue is missing crucial stories. Serrin Foster, president of the group Feminists for Life, which opposes abortion, told Vox in an email that "since abortion is such an important issue to people on both sides of the political divide, it is surprising how little air time is devoted to this contentious subject from mainstream cable news." She called for more coverage of legislation that supports pregnant people, such as a law recently passed in California that grants protections to pregnant and parenting students.

She's not the only one who sees media coverage of abortion and related issues as lacking. Researchers say the Media Matters finding is in line with the broader landscape of abortion coverage, across the political spectrum.

"Most of the time when abortion is covered, it's as a political hot-button issue, not treated as a health issue," Katie Woodruff, a public health social scientist at Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health, a group at the University of California, San Francisco, told Vox. "It's very much treated in the context of horse-race politics."

"The way even mainstream news covers abortion tends to emphasize the polarization that we have come to associate with it," added Woodruff, who has studied newspaper coverage of abortion. "Most of the public supports abortion rights and abortion is a very safe and common experience, and I don't think you would understand that from even mainstream news coverage of the issue, let alone how Fox chooses to approach the topic."

Kann also says that to combat misinformation, media outlets need to be specific in their coverage of abortion and look beyond the political battles.

"When we treat abortion just as a political issue" and not one of health care or people's rights, she said, "we lose the context necessary to debunk some of the most harmful claims that are coming out of right-wing media."

"Making sure that we are talking about abortion in specific, nuanced, and factual ways is always going to be the most important," she added.

The governor of Alabama signed the nation's strictest anti-abortion bill into law. Vox's Anna North explains what the legislation means and Sean Rameswaram speaks with Eric Johnston, the man who helped write it.

Looking for a quick way to keep up with the never-ending news cycle? Today, Explained will guide you through the most important stories at the end of each day.

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America's abortion debate is being defined by Fox News

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What is an abortion?

Abortion is a medical procedure that ends a pregnancy. In-clinic abortion procedures are safe and effective. In-clinic abortions are sometimes called surgical abortions, though they're generally an in-office procedure, not surgery.

What are the types of in-clinic abortions?

In-clinic abortion works by using suction to take a pregnancy out of your uterus. There are a couple of kinds of in-clinic abortion procedures. Your doctor or nurse will know which type is right for you, depending on how far you are into your pregnancy.

Suction abortion (also called vacuum aspiration) is the most common type of in-clinic abortion. It uses gentle suction to empty your uterus. It's usually used until about 14-16 weeks after your last period.

Dilation and Evacuation (D&E) is another kind of in-clinic abortion procedure. It uses suction and medical tools to empty your uterus. You can get a D&E later in a pregnancy than aspiration abortion -- usually if it has been 16 weeks or longer since your last period.

How effective are in-clinic abortions?

In-clinic abortions are extremely effective. They work more than 99 out of every 100 times. Needing to get a repeat procedure because the abortion didn't work is really rare.

When can I get an in-clinic abortion?

How early you can get an abortion depends on where you go. In some places, you can get it as soon as you have a positive pregnancy test. Other doctors or nurses prefer to wait until 5-6 weeks after the first day of your last period.

How late you can get an abortion depends on the laws in your state and what doctor, abortion clinic, or Planned Parenthood health center you go to. It may be harder to find a health care provider who will do an abortion after the 12th week of pregnancy, so it's best to try to have your abortion as soon as possible.

Why do people choose an in-clinic abortion?

Which kind of abortion you choose all depends on your personal preference and situation. Some people choose in-clinic abortion because they want to to have their procedure done at a health center, with nurses, doctors, and trained support staff there the whole time. (With the abortion pill, you have the abortion at home.)

In-clinic abortions are also much faster than the abortion pill: most in-clinic abortions only take about 5-10 minutes, while a medication abortion may take up to 24 hours to complete.

Your nurse, doctor, or health center counselor can help you decide which kind of abortion is best for you.

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Key facts about the abortion debate in America

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As the nation’s post-Roe chapter begins and the legal battle shifts to the states, here are key facts about Americans’ views on abortion.

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BBC - Ethics - Abortion: Reasons for abortion

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This article sets out the possible circumstances in which society might permit abortion.