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While "spontaneous abortion" is semantically correct for some reason it just struck me as highly offensive.

Sorry my wife didn't have a "spontaneous abortion". She had a miscarriage.

Yes I know I can't do anything about it, and doesn't really matter what the paperwork says. I just wanted to vent.

Maybe it's just me.

1 posted on 10/22/2009 9:05:31 AM PDT by Domandred
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I am so sorry for your loss. :(


29 posted on 10/22/2009 11:15:33 AM PDT by Marie Antoinette (Proud Clinton-hater since 1998.)
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Miscarriage is a lay term not a medical term...Abortion has always been used in relation to the loss of a pregnancy..That kinda surprised me when I went into nursing in the 1970's...There is a spontaneous abortion, inevitable abortion, threatened abortion and habitual abortion...

When admitting a woman to the OB or GYN floor the reason for admission would list one of the above..

Since abortion for any reason was made available, the term has taken on a bad sound....The abortion for any reason is called a therapeutic abortion or choice.

The term abortion is shocking to one that does not know that it is the medical term for miscarriage...

Miscarriage does not describe the loss of a pregnancy...Miscarriage has a totally different defination and could mean many different things, including "Miscarriage of justice". Hope this helps you underatand the medical reason for the term abortion..

30 posted on 10/22/2009 12:55:29 PM PDT by goat granny
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I am so sorry for your loss. May your precious baby RIP.


32 posted on 10/22/2009 12:58:57 PM PDT by tioga
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Sorry to hear FRiend....

Been there.....

34 posted on 10/22/2009 1:16:34 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Obama's a self-made man who worships his own creator...............)
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It’s not just you. It happened to me and I was offended by the term. After losing the baby, hearing it referred to that way seemed like adding insult to injury.

Prayers for you.


35 posted on 10/22/2009 1:52:52 PM PDT by mrs. a (It's a short life but a merry one...)
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Thank you all for your condolences and sympathy.

My wife is feeling much better, but I imaging sudden crying spells will be common for a while.


38 posted on 10/22/2009 2:06:42 PM PDT by Domandred (Fdisk, format, and reinstall the entire .gov system. I am Jim Thompson.)
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Miscarriage isn’t a medical term “spontaneous abortion” is, sorry.


40 posted on 10/22/2009 2:09:09 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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I hear you, and I’m sorry for your loss.


41 posted on 10/22/2009 2:10:43 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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I am sorry for your loss, Domandred. The State’s attack on our language and your wife by naming a miscarriage an abortion, is crudness to the highest degree.

Are you going to raise heck with the source of this outrageous medical form? They have no right to put into her medical record the word “abortion” when she did not have an abortion. That is a terrible thing to do to a mother who has lost her child!


42 posted on 10/22/2009 2:19:21 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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