You make an incredibly important point. It gives me a paradigm shift in what is needed in the legislation: we need more appropriate terminology. “Live” abortions should be separated from D&Cs for miscarriage, which are a necessary procedure once the tragedy of a lost child occurs.

So instead of prohibiting abortions from being included in health care, we should ask for “live abortions” to be excluded from health care. Language needs to be exact in this cases (Roe v. Wade only allowed abortions “for the health of the mother” or something like that, but the wording was too ambiguous and has been interpreted to mean mental health (like “I can’t handle a child right now.”) as well as physical well-being.

Thanks for being a faithful reader, J! I’m sorry it took so long to respond to this comment; it got a bit buried in my list somehow.

Yours,
Katie

The medical community often calls miscarriages, “missed abortions” or “spontaneous abortions.” A D&C procedure (used during elective abortions) is also used to terminate pregnancies where life is not possible (for example, in a molar pregnancy or sometimes in cases where there is only an empty sac).

When a miscarriage occurs and “products of conception” (as the doctors so inelegantly and insensitively call it) remain in the body, a D&C is often medically required for the health of the mother and her future ability to conceive.

Though this procedure is called an abortion, it does not stop a beating heart, does not stop life and in fact, saves lives.

The problem with generalities, in terms of prohibiting certain medical procedures, is that it does not make exceptions for these types of cases, where a life is not terminated.

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