MEDICAL ABORTION AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO INSTRUMENTAL ABORTION
The difficult demographic situation characterized by negative population growth and decline in women's health indicators every year has gone beyond the scope of a national problem. According to the WHO, about 75 million women each year face the problem of unwanted pregnancy and 46 million of them resort to abortion. Since artificial termination of pregnancy directly affects the woman's health in the long term, determining the most sparing method of abortion is very important. Back at the end of the 1960s practitioners in more advanced countries rejected curettage and dilatation as abortive methods, because their use was connected with a high risk of injuries to the uterus and internal organs. In Russia active implementation of the medication method as the alternative method of pregnancy termination only came into use in 2015. This event has positively affected on women's health and promoted the development of non-invasive abortion. This review focuses on the analysis of literary sources and concentrates on the processes occurring in the woman’s body during the surgical and medical abortions. We have analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of medical abortion over surgical one and assessed the long-term consequences after pregnancy termination.