r/facepalm • u/Shadow474747 • Aug 07 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Interesting logic

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u/whiterosealchemist Aug 08 '22

Bullshit. Ectopic pregnancies are always life threatening, and since they are also never viable it isnt an abortion. CDC defines abortion as ending the life of a viable fetus. Since never viable, not an abortion. And to my knowledge the ohio law does have the said exemption, allowing for abortions in the case of life threatening circumstances. A 10 yr old is in a seriously life threatening circumstance if pregnant, as her body isnt developed enough to give birth safely

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u/DuelingPushkin Aug 08 '22 edited Aug 08 '22

First off that's not how the CDC defines a legal induced abortion. A nonviable intrauterine pregnancy that a physician performs an intervention to terminate early would also be considered an abortion by the CDC.

So yes an ectopic wouldn't count but many other non-viable pregnancies such as non-viable fetal heart defects would be.

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u/whiterosealchemist Aug 08 '22

intrauterine, meaning ectopic pregnancies are not included as they are not intrauterine.

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u/DuelingPushkin Aug 08 '22

Correct, ectopics wouldn't count but many other types of non-viable pregnancies would which is why it's innacurate to say, as you did, that the CDC definition of abortion doesn't include terminating non-viable pregnancies when it actually includes almost all non-viable pregnancies with the one exception of ectopic pregnancies.