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Table 9.  Induced Abortions Occurring Within State by Type of Procedure and Weeks of Gestation, 2007
                               Weeks of Gestation1                                
Type of Procedure Total Under 9 9-12 13-15 16-19 20 + Unk
State Total 24,850        15,137 6,575 1,410 1,057 593 78
Suction Curettage 18,957 11,865 6,308 624 122 5 33
Dilation and Evacuation (D&E) 2,530 30 242 780 917 555 6
Medical (nonsurgical) 3,284 3222 13 1 8 7 33
Intrauterine Instillation 30 0 0 0 8 22 0
Sharp Curettage 30 15 9 0 2 0 4
Hysterotomy/Hysterectomy 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
Other Procedure2 5 1 0 1 0 3 0
Unknown 13 4 3 4 0 0 2
1 Weeks of gestation are estimated by the physician and may differ from weeks calculated from last known menses.
2 Other procedures includes: 2 labor inductions, 1 prostin injection, 1 other injection.
Table 10.   Induced Abortions with Complications Occurring Within State by Type of Procedure and Weeks of Gestation, 2007
                               Weeks of Gestation1                               
Type of Procedure Total Under 9  9-12 13-15 16-19 20 + Unk
State Total2 298 198 54 8 16 13 9
State Rate3 12.0 8.0 2.2 0.3 0.6 0.5 0.4
Suction Curettage 143 83 52 5 0 0 3
Dilation and Evacuation (D&E) 26 0 2 3 15 6 0
Medical (nonsurgical) 111 108 0 0 0 0 3
Intrauterine Instillation 6 0 0 0 1 5 0
Sharp Curettage 10 7 0 0 0 0 3
Hysterotomy/Hysterectomy 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
Other Procedure4 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
Unknown Procedure 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Unknown if Complications Present 10 5 4 1 0 0 0
No Complications 24,542 14,934 6,517 1,401 1,041 580 69
1 Weeks of gestation are estimated by the physician and may differ from weeks calculated from last known menses.
2 The total number of patients with complications was 298; total number of complications was 298.
3 Rate equals the number of abortion patients with complications per 1,000 abortions occurring in Washington. Abortions occurring in Washington was 24,850 in 2007.
Source:  Center for Health Statistics, Washington State Department of Health, 09/2008.
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