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Why do some doctors call miscarriages “abortions”?

April 26, 2017abortions doctors miscarriages

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Why do some doctors call miscarriages “abortions”?

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Do not confuse the word abortion XE “abortion” with the term that describes the elective procedure, which is called a therapeutic abortion. The word abort simply means to end prematurely, so abortion and miscarriage are medically interchangeable terms. Doctors refer to a miscarriage XE “miscarriage” \t “See spontaneous abortion” as a spontaneous abortion XE “spontaneous abortion” .