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Sensing a need for women who had experienced losses through miscarriage, abortion, stillbirth, or early childhood death, the 275-year-old parish began the service in 2008.

Which of these things is not like the others?

15 posted on 01/15/2010 7:47:44 AM PST by Constitutionalist Conservative (Two blogs for the price of none!)
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Sensing a need for women who had experienced losses through miscarriage, abortion, stillbirth, or early childhood death, the 275-year-old parish began the service in 2008.

Which of these things is not like the others?

Actually, just to be slavishly accurate, abortion is simply the expulsion of the foetus from the womb before it is viable. This may be either spontaneous or induced, but in either case it is still an abortion. Lately it has become common to call spontaneous abortions miscarriages, but I am not sure how accurate this really is. At one time a miscarriage was the expulsion of the embryo, and abortion of a foetus, and so they were not really synonymous. But, in any case, it really is possible for a woman to suffer from an abortion and have done nothing to cause it to happen.

26 posted on 01/18/2010 3:47:25 PM PST by cothrige (Ego vero Evangelio non crederem, ni si me catholicae Ecclesiae commoveret auctoritas.)
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