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That bugs me, too!! They call a miscarriage a "spontaneous abortion". Some of the studies of the abortion-breast cancer link got screwed up because they lumped spontaneous abortion and induced abortion together. Actually, from what I understand, a miscarriage may even have a protective effect. But anyway you look at it, ABORTION STINKS and can lead to the dread killer disease of breast cancer.

Just for the record: for most of our history, miscarriages were called "spontaneous abortions".

I remember getting into a heated argument with a "pro-choice" woman at church (United Methodist) who didn't believe my personal experience regarding legal abortion. She said she had had an abortion, and she "simply didn't believe it" when I told her of consequences of legal abortion. As we spoke more, it turns out she had lost a baby at 7-months gestation and the death certificate read "spontaneous abortion".

She wanted that child, and lost it through abortion--so of course she's "pro-choice". The problem is, that's a situation/loss/pain she needed to take up with God.

Legalized abortion, when the woman decides--for any or NO reason--to actively end the pregnancy, is completely different from what she labeled "pro-choice".

Legalized abortion has led to increased rates of breast cancer. It just isn't politically-correct to inform the women considering abortion that their lifetime health and welfare is at stake.

My question is: who will those many women sue when the truth comes out--as it will one day. (Remember, during the 1930s and 1940s, the average German didn't believe the rumors either, and denied the truth also, until the evidence was too overwhelming to deny any longer.)

(end rant)

"It really bugs me when a doctor refers to a miscarriage as 'an abortion'."

ME TOO!! One of my miscarriages was classified as an "incomplete abortion" since I didn't miscarry naturally after the baby died. I remember sitting at some insurance person's desk trying to explain that I hadn't had an abortion....that my baby died in utero and I had to have surgery. It was awful, and all these years later it still makes me want to cry.

It really bugs me when a doctor refers to a miscarriage as 'an abortion'. That insensitivity leads to unnecessary guilt on the part of the mom.

Sensitivity over accuracy? Talk about PC!

The term "abortion" simply means a process or plan that comes to a sudden, unexpected or unnatural end. Thus the phrases "an abortive attempt" "the project was aborted" and "abort, retry, fail". I've never heard of DOS users who felt guilty when they have a bad crash. Ironically, the term "miscarriage" has similar, non-pregnancy related uses such as "a miscarriage of justice". I wonder if Marsha Clark believed people thought she had an abortion when using that phrase to refer to the Simpson case.