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    Manual and Vacuum Aspiration for Abortion

    Manual and Vacuum Aspiration for Abortion



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    First-trimester surgical abortions are safe and effective and have few complications.

    In rare cases, an aspiration procedure doesn't successfully end a pregnancy. This is more likely to happen during the earliest weeks of a pregnancy.



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