Complications may cause a miscarriage or spontaneous abortion to occur.

Most late abortions occur between 20 and 24 weeks.

In most of my readings concerning this topic, it seems that abortions occur for the mother's spiritual growth.

Most spontaneous abortions occur so early in the pregnancy that the woman is not even aware that she was pregnant.

But an abortion can occur only after a pregnancy has been established.

Even if 10,000 such abortions occurred each year, that would still be a tiny minority of America's annual 1.5 million abortions.

Spontaneous abortion occurs in up to 20% of cases.

A septic abortion can occur when bacteria enters the uterus.

Roughly 80,000 abortions a year occur in Australia, making abortion the most common operation in this country of 21 million.

If abortion does not occur or is not complete, or there are serious medical problems, surgery may be needed.