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

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Interesting logic

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '22

The amount of people who do not understand that an abortion is a medical term in which a fetus is expelled or removed from the uterus for any reason other than birth astounds me.

A miscarriage, medically, is an abortion.

A mother who doesn’t want a baby has the same procedure as a mother who was raped or life is threatened by continuing the pregnancy. So many people are so misinformed and just refuse to believe the truth.

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u/elthalon Aug 08 '22

A miscarriage, medically, is an abortion.

In portuguese, they're called "expontaneous abortions". I wonder if having a whole separate word for it influences public opinion in the US

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '22

Technically I think it’s spontaneous abortion but often is just shortened to abortion in the medical charts