How many times can a woman have an abortion?

Abortion is a common surgery to terminate pregnancy in modern life. Some women do not take care of their bodies and may have multiple abortions, which is quite harmful to women. The maximum number of abortions a woman can have depends on her specific physical condition. For some women, one abortion may cause great harm and even cause infertility. Let us take a brief look at this aspect.

How many times can a woman have an abortion?

Abortion is a helpless act after an unexpected pregnancy, especially for women who know that abortion is very harmful but have to do it again. How many abortions a woman can have before having another one is one of the most common questions women ask their doctors. Abortion is very harmful to women. If possible, it is best for women not to have an abortion at all!!

Abortion is a helpless act after an unexpected pregnancy. Abortion usually refers to the use of artificial abortion to terminate pregnancy. In addition to the medical abortion we are familiar with, other methods of artificial abortion usually include suction uterine surgery, forceps curettage and induced labor. It mainly depends on the length of pregnancy and the indications of various abortion methods. But in daily life, we know more about two methods: medical abortion and painless abortion. Due to lack of understanding of the dangers of abortion, many women, especially young women, often regard abortion as a contraceptive measure.

What are the dangers of abortion?

1. Infection

Some informal clinics have incomplete facilities and lax disinfection, which can easily cause infection to the mother.

2. Endometriosis

Repeated dilation of the cervical canal can easily cause cervical canal damage and adhesions, leading to menstrual blood retention, triggering endometriosis, and causing dysmenorrhea.

3. Ectopic pregnancy

According to statistics, nearly 1% of induced abortions are accompanied by infection, which will cause inflammation of the endometrium and fallopian tubes, and inflammation of the endometrium and fallopian tubes is an important cause of ectopic pregnancy.

4. Damage to the endometrium

Every abortion may damage the endometrium. The more times the scraping is performed, the more serious the damage to the endometrium will be. In severe cases, it may even cause uterine perforation. It is also easy for placenta implantation and adhesion to occur when pregnant again, causing dystocia and postpartum hemorrhage.

5. Increased spontaneous abortion rate

A common complication after artificial abortion is cervical injury, especially in unmarried women, the possibility of cervical injury is greater. When the woman becomes pregnant again after marriage, premature birth or late miscarriage may occur due to cervical incompetence.

6. Increased perinatal mortality

Some artificial abortion operations damage the endometrial muscle layer, causing placental blood circulation disorders during the next pregnancy, causing placental insufficiency, resulting in fetal hypoxia, slow growth, premature stillbirth and increased neonatal mortality.

7. Pelvic inflammatory disease

Multiple abortions will increase the chance of uterine infection and the incidence of pelvic inflammatory disease. In severe cases, it can also lead to uterine adhesions and menstrual disorders. If pelvic inflammatory disease recurs, it will cause chronic lower abdominal pain, seriously affecting women's quality of life in the future.

8. Cause endocrine disorders

After pregnancy, the amount of progesterone in a woman's body will increase, the endometrium will thicken, and the breasts will enlarge, thus laying the foundation for the growth of the fetus. However, untimely abortion will cause sudden changes in the body's endocrine system. If the body has not yet adjusted and an abortion is then performed, it will cause endocrine disorders.

9. Infertility

According to relevant reports, the infertility rate caused by unmarried abortion (especially first-child abortion) is as high as 10%. The reasons may be postoperative adhesion of the cervix and uterine cavity, affecting pregnancy; it may also be postoperative obstruction of the fallopian tubes or disorder of fallopian tube motility; or due to repeated suction and scraping, the endometrium becomes thinner and thinner, and there is no good "soil" needed for the fertilized egg to implant, affecting embryonic development, and in severe cases, causing lifelong infertility.