An immigrant regrets having become pregnant and wishes to abort her child. The immigrant woman fears being deported back to her country, so she decides to abort her own child without going to the hospital to undergo a proper procedure. Immigrant women, like this one, decide to abort their own babies instead of entrusting the procedure to medical experts. Many consequences arise when immigrant women use different types of methods to abort their children for fear of deportation or being rejected by their community. Immigrant women should entrust the abortion method to medical experts, regardless of personal problems that may arise later. Abortion is defined as the removal of a fetus from the uterus, resulting in the death of the fetus (“The American Heritage Dictionary,” 2000). . A woman would abort because she cannot provide for the baby's basic needs. However, among immigrant mothers, they fear being caught as illegal immigrants in the hospital. There are also religions that forbid abortion as a sign of shame, so women prefer to induce the abortion themselves to make it appear as if it was a natural miscarriage. Immigrant families are going through a financial crisis and therefore cannot afford the medical costs associated with an in-clinic abortion (Tornoe, 2009). These reasons should not justify the means of induced self-abortion for the sole purpose of hiding from the authorities. In turn, immigrant women would induce the abortion themselves instead of going to the hospital, as if they were damaging their physical body to kill the fetus. Immigrant women would fall down stairs or grab a chair and hit their stomachs repeatedly until they bled (Tornoe, 2009). The force of the objects would kill the fetus immediately, but the mother would... middle of paper ... no harm would come to the mother and there would be no need to go to the hospital initially. place. However, doctors have many years of experience knowing what a woman needs when it comes to medical procedures. Works Cited The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (4th ed.). (2000). Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Tornoe, J. (January 6, 2009). Elective abortions are common in Hispanic communities, studies show. Latin American National Institute for Reproductive Health. Accessed April 20, 2014, from http://latinainstitute.org/es/inthenews/Self-Induced-Abortions-Common-Among-Hispanic-Communities-Studies-SayYanow, S. and Herold, S. (December 6, 2011). ). Abortion is legal: so why is self-abortion care a crime? HR reality check. Retrieved April 20, 2014, from http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2011/12/06/abortion-is-legal-so-why-is-self-abortion-care-crime/