{"id":316506,"date":"2024-08-01T16:40:53","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T21:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=316506"},"modified":"2024-08-05T01:23:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T06:23:56","slug":"wife-miscarriage-calls-abortion-wasnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wife-miscarriage-calls-abortion-wasnt\/","title":{"rendered":"His wife had a miscarriage, but he calls it an abortion. Here’s why it wasn’t."},"content":{"rendered":"
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A recent op-ed<\/a> in Newsweek titled in part, “Abortion Care Saved My Family,” purports to show that ‘abortion’ is pro-life. While the author attempts to show that his wife needed an ‘abortion’, in reality, what she needed and received<\/em> was standard miscarriage treatment. As Live Action News has repeatedly<\/a> shown<\/a>, the two are not the same, though the same procedure may be used in both instances. Miscarriage treatment attempts to remove an already naturally deceased<\/em> child’s remains; induced abortion intentionally kills<\/em> a preborn child and then removes the remains.<\/p>\n

In the piece, author Jason Nichols, a “senior lecturer in the African American Studies Department at the University of Maryland College Park,” explains that his wife was several months pregnant when she started experiencing heavy bleeding and severe chills. After a trip to the emergency room, she received heartbreaking news. He wrote:<\/p>\n

As the weekend progressed, so did the bleeding. It got heavier and darker. My wife began to sweat and to have severe chills. She is registered nurse, and we decided on Sunday morning to go to the emergency room. When we arrived, she was taken straight to Labor and Delivery, where the nurse performed a Doppler test and was unable to find Jojo’s heartbeat<\/strong>. The doctor and radiologist both performed ultrasounds and gave us the devastating news that our pregnancy was no longer viable at 14 weeks<\/strong>. <\/em><\/p>\n

The medical term is a “missed abortion.” We were allowed to go home after being told about the next steps and a procedure that would have to be performed in the coming days.<\/em><\/p>\n

When we got home, my wife’s illness continued. We took her temperature, which turned out to be 103.7. We returned to the hospital immediately for her procedure to remove Jojo and the infection.<\/em><\/p>\n

Though Nichols claims the medical term is a “missed abortion,” this condition<\/a> is also often referred to as a “missed miscarriage<\/em>.” Was Nichols misled by the use of the term “abortion”? Is the medical community’s and the abortion industry’s (often grief-inducing) conflation of the terms “miscarriage” and “abortion” misinforming families and causing women who have had natural miscarriages (necessitating surgical intervention or medication) to think they have had induced abortions<\/em>?<\/p>\n

After all, misleading women and families about abortion vs. miscarriage is certainly one<\/em> way the abortion industry can garner support for elective, intentional killing<\/em> by abortion.<\/p>\n

Though Nichols doesn’t explicitly say, it is implied that his wife needed an emergency dilation & curettage (D&C) procedure following her miscarriage to remove her deceased preborn child’s body, due to the warning signs of illness and high fever, which could indicate infection. This D&C would be considered standard (and very much legal) miscarriage care. However, because the D&C technique is also sometimes used as a first-trimester surgical abortion procedure (during which a still living child is intentionally killed<\/em>), abortion proponents like Nichols often liken it to an abortion<\/em> \u2014 but it’s not.<\/p>\n

An induced abortion is always the direct and intentional taking of a preborn human life<\/em> in the womb. An induced abortion has one goal \u2014 the death of a preborn child. Though not the case in Nichols’ wife’s missed miscarriage situation, instances in which a mother’s life is in danger may require in the preterm delivery of a child, secondarily resulting in that child’s unintended death. This is also not an abortion, because the primary intention was not to cause the death of the child, but to protect the health and wellbeing of the mother.<\/p>\n

As Nichols states, his preborn child was already deceased; the D&C his wife underwent was not the direct and intentional death of his child, but simply the removal of the child’s already deceased body.<\/p>\n