[Judith Anne]

Surgery for ectopic pregnancy is not an abortion.

[TNdandelion]

Well, then the powers that be need to make up its mind because this woman required surgery.

I would also point that your use of the term abortion is misleading. Any termination of any pregnancy is medically called an abortion. A miscarriage is called a spontaneous abortion, etc. The problem that you have is justifying your previous statement that there is no abortion that is not elective.

Unlike most miscarriages, ectopic pregnancies don't always resolve themselves on their own and require medical intervention. The act of surgically removing the baby and therefore terminating the pregnancy is an abortion, it's just NOT an elective one. And that's where people who are rabidly pro-life run into problems. I should know...I used to be rabidly pro-life. I just hope no one else ever has to go through what I did in order to learn to be a little more realistic about it.

[trisham]

Surgery for ectopic pregnancy is not an abortion.

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I believe this is correct, because the baby cannot grow and survive outside the womb.

[Irisshlass]

Surgery for ectopic pregnancy is not an abortion.

Agree

[hocndoc]

Of course it is an abortion. We have separately classified these, but to cause the death of the child, even indirectly is an abortion.