Abortion is one of the most common and safe surgical procedures performed in the United States.
The CDC has extensive reviews about the risks of legal abortion. Their data has looked at more than 1 million cases done in over 100 sites over the past 25 years. The overall risk of a serious complication in the first trimester is about 1 in 200 cases. The risk of a major complication increases in the second trimester. For the past 10 years Dr. Seletz has had a rate less than 1 in 1000 cases.