Abortion Apoptosis

Apoptosis is programmed cell death, a normal process in which cells perish in an orderly, highly controlled manner so as to sculpt and control an organism's development.

Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy associated with the death and expulsion of the embryo or fetus from the womb. In medicine, all terminations of pregnancy not resulting in live birth are defined as abortions. In common parlance, the terms miscarriage or stillbirth are applied to spontaneous (non-induced) abortions.

There are two types of Abortion Apoptosis

Spontaneous abortion

A spontaneous abortion is the loss of a fetus during pregnancy due to natural causes. The term "miscarriage" is the spontaneous termination of a pregnancy before fetal development has reached 20 weeks. Pregnancy losses after the 20th week are categorized as preterm deliveries.

Spontaneous abortions are caused by apotposis can come from fetal genetic abnormalities, infection, physical problems the mother may have, hormonal factors, immune responses, and serious systemic diseases of the mother.

Therapeutic abortion or  elective abortion

Therapeutic abortion: An abortion performed because the pregnancy poses physical or mental health risk to the pregnant woman.

Elective abortion: An abortion performed for any other reason.

Apoptosis applies to these when a drug or other substance is used to cause cell death such as with the abortion pill RU-486 sold as mifepristone & misoprostol,