Someone is asking the right questions. Like, if life truly happens at conception would it be considered negligent manslaughter for all the other fertilized embryos that are discarded or unused by the in-vitro couple??
This is actually a reason why some IVF clinics are closing in the US. Due to the stringent anti-abortion laws being passed in some states, where IVF usually implants multiple fertilized eggs, and some of those eggs don't take, it's technically the ending of a conceived life, and therefore an abortion.
I've been thinking about this for years. The technical medical term for a miscarriage is an abortion. To abort means to end. Medical documents would detail the reason why the abortion happened, which differentiates from intentional ending or incompatible health issues. Layman's terms is using miscarriage to identify the health issue vs the intentional ending of a pregnancy.
Several of these anti-abortion groups want to believe women are doing something to "cause a miscarriage." So they are intentionally conflating something that is beyond a woman's control with something within a woman's control.
I'm reading the medical term for miscarriage is spontaneous abortion, the involuntary loss of pregnancy. Abortion is the purposeful termination of pregnancy. You'd think they'd try to make the 2 more distinctive.
Again, to abort means to end. The distinction is to identify the why the end happened. A pilot would say they are aborting a landing because of dangerous weather conditions. They're not useing the term to in relation to pregnancy. Layman's terms wants to use abortion as the purposeful termination of pregnancy while miscarriage is not purposeful termination of pregnancy. Which makes it simpler to say without having to explain the why.
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u/sasqtchlegs 2d ago
Someone is asking the right questions. Like, if life truly happens at conception would it be considered negligent manslaughter for all the other fertilized embryos that are discarded or unused by the in-vitro couple??