You are pregnant and are considering aborting your pregnancy. In this decision-making process, you may have many questions. However, you are also entitled to receive support and advice from a pregnancy counselling centre.
In Germany, anyone who decides to have an abortion can choose between instrumental and medication-based abortion. The decision as to whether or not to terminate your pregnancy is entirely up to you. Nobody else can and must make this highly personal decision for you. By the way, pro familia does not use the term "abortion" because it is usually used with a negative connotation.
In the past, abortion was the term used to describe an illegal abortion. Many people use the term abortion colloquially when they search for information about abortion. Approximately The following requirements must be met for an abortion according to the regulation of consultation:. For the legally prescribed counselling, you have to contact a pregnancy conflict consultation, for example a pro familia counselling centre in your area.
The most common and most gentle method of instrumental abortion is the suction method also called vacuum aspiration. It can be performed under local or general anaesthesia. For local anaesthesia, you will be given an injection to the right and left of the cervix, which is little or no painful.
In some practices a sedative is given before the procedure, which makes you a little sleepy. In general anaesthesia, the anaesthesia is injected into the arm vein by an anaesthetist and you sleep during the procedure. You should not eat, drink or smoke for 6 hours before a general anaesthesia.
