You may wish to discuss your situation and your feelings about abortion with your partner, parents, a professional, or a friend. However, no one has the legal right to force you to have an abortion or prevent you from getting one. Planned Parenthood of Southern Arizona offers both surgical and medical abortions. Medical Abortion is a non-surgical way to end a pregnancy by using certain medications. In order to have a medical abortion, you must agree to have a surgical abortion if the medical abortion does not work.
Mifepristone is a drug which blocks the action of the natural hormone progesterone.
It has many potential uses but is best known for its ability to interrupt pregnancy in its early stages, thus providing women with a medical alternative to surgical abortion. Mifepristone alone can cause a very early abortion some of the time but is not reliable enough by itself, so it is followed in two days by a prostaglandin, misoprostol. A majority of women experience bleeding and the passage of the pregnancy within four hours of receiving the prostaglandin. The vast majority of women who have chosen this method have been satisfied. It also puts more of the abortion in the hands of the woman.