{"id":297840,"date":"2023-09-04T07:01:46","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T12:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=297840"},"modified":"2023-09-02T14:55:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:55:46","slug":"difference-miscarriage-abortion-truth-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/difference-miscarriage-abortion-truth-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"There’s a difference between miscarriage and abortion, and learning the truth matters"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After the fall of Roe v. Wade<\/em>, stories about the so-called necessity of abortion began flooding media outlets. Many pro-abortion activists claimed that women needed abortion, which was a form of “health care,” because abortion is the same thing as a treatment for miscarriage. Yet while some of the processes involved may be the same, there is a vast difference between abortion and miscarriage.<\/p>\n

A tragic loss<\/h3>\n

Emily Savors, an outspoken abortion advocate<\/a>, wrote an op-ed for the Columbus Dispatch about her miscarriage experience, which she likened to an abortion. “It was early 1997, and I was newly married with a 4-year-old daughter from a previous marriage. My husband and I wanted more children, and by late spring, I was pregnant. My first pregnancy being uneventful, we settled in for an easy few months with expectations of a baby due in March 1998,” she began. But tragically, she began spotting, and experienced a miscarriage, which she confirmed at her obstetrician’s office.<\/p>\n

“Upon arriving, an ultrasound was conducted, and my worst fears were confirmed \u2014 there was no heartbeat<\/strong>,” she said (emphasis added).<\/p>\n

Savors then claimed she underwent an abortion<\/strong> in order to save her life.<\/p>\n

“The grief of this monumental loss still incredibly fresh, my doctor told me that if I didn\u2019t undergo an abortion to remove the dead fetus<\/strong>, I risked developing a uterine infection that could jeopardize my life,” she said. “And so, for my own life and my family\u2019s, I did what I never thought I would have to do \u2013 I ended the pregnancy<\/strong>.” (emphases added)<\/p>\n

She concluded, “It was my decision to get an abortion<\/strong> to protect my life.” (emphasis added)<\/p>\n

Let’s be clear: Savors did not have an induced abortion (killing a child who was still alive). Savors received post-miscarriage treatment (removing the remains of an already deceased child) to prevent infection.<\/p>\n

Miscarriage or abortion?<\/h3>\n

There is no denying that Savors suffered an unspeakable tragedy. Miscarriage is something many women suffer<\/a>, albeit often in silence. The situation can be even worse is when they, like Savors, need treatment<\/a> to complete the miscarriage process. As the Mayo Clinic explained, this is sometimes necessary for a missed miscarriage<\/a>, in which \u201cthe placental and embryonic tissues remain in the uterus, but the embryo has died or was never formed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Frequently, the procedure performed in this scenario is a dilation and curettage, or D&C. This procedure, while used by abortionists to commit surgical abortions in the first trimester, is also used to remove the remains of a child that has already died in miscarriage. And according to the Mayo Clinic<\/a>, in addition to miscarriage treatment, a D&C can also be used to \u201cdiagnose and treat certain uterine conditions \u2014 such as heavy bleeding \u2014 or to clear the uterine lining after a miscarriage or abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even Mayo Clinic differentiates between miscarriage<\/em> and abortion<\/em>. And in the video below, you can watch a former abortionist describe an early D&C abortion, done with the purpose of ending a child’s life.<\/p>\n