I had a miscarriage that I decided to let naturally pass rather than go through a medical procedure
My records still say "spontaneous abortion" That is the actual medical term. |
True. |
This has been debated to death. Yes, it’s the correct medical term. No, it’s not an illegal “abortion” under the relevant law. |
I’m not talking about killing humans. I’m talking about planning for live people. Children who are born into this world with no help or hope. But maybe we should talk about killing people. That’s maybe part of this discussion. What happens with an unplanned baby grows up without love, support, and guidance? Are you ok with the second graders murdered at Uvalde? They were killed by an unwanted child. Are you ok with the students murdered at MSD high school? Also killed by an unwanted child. Of course you can’t eliminate all crime and carnage, but easy access to family planning is a great start. Abortion is family planning. Abortion is healthcare. |
One woman making one decision about her one pregnancy is not eugenics. Neither are laws and policies that support it. |
The most insane part of this ridiculous thread:
Conservatives trying to use semantics to convince people that a D&C isn’t an “abortion” 😂 We live in the worst time line. |
I’m pro-choice, and I had a miscarriage with a D&C, and I wouldn’t go and say that I had an abortion (even though that is the medical term). The accepted connotation of “abortion” is voluntarily ending a pregnancy. |
Maybe some of the rabid posters in this thread could pivot their energy toward learning about what these laws actually say about nonviable pregnancies. |
They’re mostly vague, vague enough that the hospital lawyers are getting involved. And GOPers like it this way. |
The most insane part of this thread: rabid libs conflating spontaneous abortions and elective abortions. |
how about if we impose our morals and standards on to you and your family. Would that make things better? You do you, I will do me, and keep your "morals" out of my uterus. |
Precision of terminology is important. If the term abortion is fully understood in its medical definition then sweeping abortion bans would have to be rewritten. But GOP doesn’t want that. They like the fear that the imprecision brings along because it makes the law even stricter than what they claim it is. Your procedure was legal, but there are extremists put there who would want to make it illegal. And if we stopped demonizing the word abortion it wouldn’t matter to people what medical records say. |
Os a woman who chooses a surgical or medical abortion for an impending miscarriage having a spontaneous abortion or elective one? Who gets to decide that? |
They don’t care about anything but being able to access abortion of convenience on demand. |
Yes, let’s just kill the unborn and call it “health care.” |