Abortion care

These eLectures have been designed to provide easily accessible, stimulating lectures for trainees and healthcare professionals with an interest in abortion care.

This tutorial contains videos and reflective tasks to help you understand the evolution of abortion law in the UK.

This tutorial looks at the drug regimens used in early medical abortion, side effects, management, and advice and follow up procedures. 

This tutorial examines conscience and abortion, conscientious objection and how to ensure the patient receives the care they need, whether involved clinicians have a personal conscientious objection to abortion or not. 

This tutorial outlines the advantages and disadvantages of medical abortion after 10 weeks and up to 24 weeks’ gestation, including the drugs and regimens used, contraindications, side-effects and post-abortion contraceptive methods.