{"id":6707,"date":"2012-04-19T10:36:55","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T10:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=6707"},"modified":"2024-12-10T10:40:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T10:40:42","slug":"how-risky-is-an-abortion-if-i-am-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/6707","title":{"rendered":"How risky is an abortion if I am positive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you don&#8217;t mind if I start off by asking you if there is a particular reason why you want to have an abortion, also known as TOP (termination of pregnancy).<\/p>\n<p>Is it because you are worried that the baby may be born positive?<\/p>\n<p>If yes, then did you to know that with modern HIV meds (ART), care and support, many thousands of women living with HIV have healthy babies every year that do not become HIV positive.<\/p>\n<p>It may be, however, that you already have the information above and this is a decision you have chosen to go ahead with. In which case, if the abortion is carried out using the right procedures, in a hospital and with the right treatment and care, then it should not carry any more risks than it would for an HIV negative woman.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, please remember that it is your right as an HIV positive woman to be able to have a termination or have a baby.<\/p>\n<p>Best wishes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am HIV positive and pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>I am thinking of having an abortion, how risky is it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-pregnancy","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6707"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25667,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6707\/revisions\/25667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}