Abortion Services Summit Medical Center performs abortions up to 22 weeks in the Clinic. Counseling services are provided to help you with your feelings and concerns related to abortion, risk of complications, follow-up care and birth control. Individual, couple, or small group counseling is available. Counseling is also available to friends or relatives. Routine laboratory analysis includes a pregnancy test, hematocrit, Rh antibody titer, and tissue pathology.
Ultrasounds are available on the premises for gestational confirmation and related concerns.
Follow-up examinations are given free of charge three weeks after the procedure. Patients should expect to be in the clinic 3 to 5 hours during which time they will receive laboratory work, counseling, the abortion, and a recovery period. The vacuum aspiration procedure is done up to 12 weeks under local anesthesia or with IV sedation according to patient choice. The dilation and evacuation is done from 13-22 weeks of pregnancy. It involves the dilation of the cervix and evacuation and curettage of the uterus.