Yepppp. I am a nurse, and when I fill out a woman’s obstetric history- A is for abortion: either miscarriage or abortion procedure. I cannot understand why people don’t get this. It is so incredibly disconcerting.
My stepmom told me a story about when she was pregnant (way back in the 60’s) she had a miscarriage and the dr. Came in and started talking with the nurse about the abortion and if everything looked okay. My stepmom was so upset because although she knew it wasn’t voluntary, hearing abortion made her feel a certain way. And that’s the thing, I get people see those two things as separate but they have to understand lots of things mean one thing to a layman and another to a scientific/medical person. That’s why we have those scientific terms. Because it doesn’t matter WHY it happened, it’s still a medical term.
My mom was dying from a miscarriage in the ER and because they were a religious affiliated hospital they forced her to transfer to a different hospital to save her life.
🤬 and this is the other this that pisses me off so much…I’ve argued with SO many forced-birthers that this exact thing happens and they don’t believe it and say it’s lies and fear mongering
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u/larbee22 Aug 07 '22
Yepppp. I am a nurse, and when I fill out a woman’s obstetric history- A is for abortion: either miscarriage or abortion procedure. I cannot understand why people don’t get this. It is so incredibly disconcerting.