Abortion: In medicine, an abortion is the premature exit of the products of conception (the fetus, fetal membranes, and placenta) from the uterus. It is the loss of a pregnancy and does not refer to why that pregnancy was lost.
A spontaneous abortion is the same as a miscarriage. The miscarriage of 3 or more consecutive pregnancies is termed habitual abortion
To clarify Yay It’s a Boy’s answer just a bit, a spontanious abortion is specifically a pregnancy that ends on its own in the first trimester, while a miscarriage is one that ends in the second. A still birth is when it goes into the third trimester.
I’ve experienced 4 spontanious abortions and one miscarriage (by that definition). With the first of those spontanious abortions I saw, just a few days before I lost the baby, the heart beating in the ultrasound – at barely 6 weeks. There is no way anyone will ever convince me that induced abortions do not take life. Abortion DOES stop a beating heart. It causes death.
It also causes an insensitivity to those of us who lose longed-for babies early in a pregnancy. I’ve been told by well-meaning friends, “It wasn’t as though you lost a baby.” I come back with, “Of course it was a baby! It certainly wasn’t a canteloupe!” I also had a nurse who attended me after one of those losses tell me that I “should be greatful” because “it could have been retarded” and I “certainly wouldn’t want THAT!” I am now the happy adoptive mother of a child who turned out to have a form of autism. I wouldn’t trade her for anything!
Having said that I will also say I am pro-choice. I just happen to believe that the choice should ONLY be made before conception and not after. If a woman truly does not want a child, then she needs to choose self control. It may be a more difficult choice, and not as exciting, but it’s better than murder. (The only exceptions are to save the life of the mother or in some cases of rape or incest.)
(You did ask for my feelings on the subject.)
Well, there’s an abortion done in a clinic for someone who doesn’t want their baby…and there’s spontaneous abortion which is also referred to as a miscarriage.
Abortion: In medicine, an abortion is the premature exit of the products of conception (the fetus, fetal membranes, and placenta) from the uterus. It is the loss of a pregnancy and does not refer to why that pregnancy was lost.
A spontaneous abortion is the same as a miscarriage. The miscarriage of 3 or more consecutive pregnancies is termed habitual abortion
feelings on the definition?
To clarify Yay It’s a Boy’s answer just a bit, a spontanious abortion is specifically a pregnancy that ends on its own in the first trimester, while a miscarriage is one that ends in the second. A still birth is when it goes into the third trimester.
I’ve experienced 4 spontanious abortions and one miscarriage (by that definition). With the first of those spontanious abortions I saw, just a few days before I lost the baby, the heart beating in the ultrasound – at barely 6 weeks. There is no way anyone will ever convince me that induced abortions do not take life. Abortion DOES stop a beating heart. It causes death.
It also causes an insensitivity to those of us who lose longed-for babies early in a pregnancy. I’ve been told by well-meaning friends, “It wasn’t as though you lost a baby.” I come back with, “Of course it was a baby! It certainly wasn’t a canteloupe!” I also had a nurse who attended me after one of those losses tell me that I “should be greatful” because “it could have been retarded” and I “certainly wouldn’t want THAT!” I am now the happy adoptive mother of a child who turned out to have a form of autism. I wouldn’t trade her for anything!
Having said that I will also say I am pro-choice. I just happen to believe that the choice should ONLY be made before conception and not after. If a woman truly does not want a child, then she needs to choose self control. It may be a more difficult choice, and not as exciting, but it’s better than murder. (The only exceptions are to save the life of the mother or in some cases of rape or incest.)
(You did ask for my feelings on the subject.)
Well, there’s an abortion done in a clinic for someone who doesn’t want their baby…and there’s spontaneous abortion which is also referred to as a miscarriage.