But early abortions will carry even more serious ethical problems.

She had an early abortion due to the economic realities of her life.

Early abortions have far more support than later ones.

He also offers a macabre tour of early abortion technology.

She was once divorced and had had an earlier abortion.

There are those who worry, nonetheless, about the social costs of emphasizing early abortion and its virtues.

Even for those seeking an early abortion, mifepristone has some drawbacks.

This does not produce an early abortion but is similar to a more powerful dose of a birth-control pill.

But she also believes that if abortion regulation were returned to the states, few of them would radically restrict early abortions.

For many women with unintended pregnancies, early abortion helps to avoid weeks of anxiety and stress.

Dr. Nathanson, now 70, describes himself as an early abortion rights pioneer.

With these very early abortions, we're talking about a whole gestational sac that's the size of a matchstick head.

"It may be that alcohol is causing early abortion, preventing the fetus from being implanted.

But they had not the knowledge or the skill to combat the sterility and early abortion that reduced then" generations.

Let's just take back the technology, the tools, the skills and the information to perform early abortions and be in charge of our own reproduction."

So far, 23 Planned Parenthood affiliates have begun offering very early abortions, many of them just in the last few months.

Abortions at such stages must in general be approved by a doctor or a special committee, unlike early abortions which are performed on demand.

Next term the Court will consider an Illinois law requiring clinics that perform early abortions to have all the facilities of a hospital operating room.

The procedure carries a greater risk of complications than earlier abortions and is often performed in hospitals rather than outpatient clinics.

Qualified nurses and physicians' assistants should be permitted to perform uncomplicated early abortions to take up the slack from doctors.

Technically, very early abortions are much the same as what was known as menstrual extraction in the days before abortion was legal.

Just as with early abortion rights successes in 1970, surprising triumphs led to rapid mobilization of angry adversaries and quick reversals.

Although early abortion is a very safe procedure, each additional week after six weeks of pregnancy increases the risk of complications for minors by 20 percent.

What this refers to is the morning-after pill and that is clearly not a form of prevention; it is quite simply an early abortion.

That was because the state law that was challenged did not restrict the availability of early abortions obtained in private doctors' offices and clinics.