Medical abortion refers to abortion resulting from oral medication.
Surgical abortion involves actual surgical procedures performed.
This method of abortion involves taking a series of pills over a period of several days that disrupts the levels of progesterone and causes the lining of the uterus to be shed, thereby carrying with it the cluster of cells that is the embryo. Medical regimes do not require doctors to have surgical background or training. Thus this area of practice is opened up to many more doctors and their patients as a result of this new drug approval. Actually, the abortion pill is really two pills taken at different times. Mifepristone is the first pill taken.