TY - JOUR T1 - Termination of first trimester pregnancy JF - Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin JO - Drug Ther Bull SP - 13 LP - 15 DO - 10.1136/dtb.1998.36213 VL - 36 IS - 2 A2 - , Y1 - 1998/02/01 UR - http://dtb.bmj.com/content/36/2/13.abstract N2 - Relevant BNF section: 7.1.1-2Nearly 200,000 pregnancies were terminated in the UK in 1996.1,2 Around 90% of the terminations were performed within the first 13 weeks of pregnancy.1,2 In this article, we discuss the two approaches used to achieve termination at this stage of pregnancy: medicines and vacuum aspiration. ER -