Comments on: What is the medical definition of abortion? http://falcate.com/blog/what-is-the-medical-definition-of-abortion/ Falcate.com Wed, 23 May 2012 00:28:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: TIna http://falcate.com/blog/what-is-the-medical-definition-of-abortion/comment-page-1/#comment-375 TIna Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:59:41 +0000 http://falcate.com/blog/what-is-the-medical-definition-of-abortion/#comment-375 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 **** or ******.) (You did ask for my feelings on the subject.) 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 **** or ******.)

(You did ask for my feelings on the subject.)

]]> By: Mommy in June! http://falcate.com/blog/what-is-the-medical-definition-of-abortion/comment-page-1/#comment-374 Mommy in June! Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:42:20 +0000 http://falcate.com/blog/what-is-the-medical-definition-of-abortion/#comment-374 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. 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.

]]> By: JC http://falcate.com/blog/what-is-the-medical-definition-of-abortion/comment-page-1/#comment-373 JC Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:00:03 +0000 http://falcate.com/blog/what-is-the-medical-definition-of-abortion/#comment-373 feelings on the definition? feelings on the definition?

]]> By: Yay its a boy! http://falcate.com/blog/what-is-the-medical-definition-of-abortion/comment-page-1/#comment-372 Yay its a boy! Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:55:53 +0000 http://falcate.com/blog/what-is-the-medical-definition-of-abortion/#comment-372 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 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

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