Abortion Risks and complications Other problems
If a bad thing happens because of a surgery or medicine that a doctor gives, or because of a miscarriage, it is called a 'complication'. Complications of abortions can be infection, bleeding, pain. In places where induced abortions are legal, less women have complications of induced abortion than in places where induced abortion is illegal. This is because induced abortions that are not done by doctors have much more risks. For example, after induced abortions became legal in the United States in 1973, less women died from having abortions.