Why do people consider abortions a baby but a miscarriage just a miscarriage? I've had a miscarriage twice and was told its just a miscarriage like it wasn't a baby, but if a person has an abortion its a baby. Wouldn't they both be considered babies?
2006-12-07 15:05:59 · 13 answers · asked by gril26 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
I know what you mean. I think its terribly sad when a woman who is happy and excited about her baby has a miscarriage, but I also know tons of girls who have had abortions (me included) and I am supportive of their choice.
2006-12-07 15:11:34 · answer #1 · answered by Together 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, they are both babies. An abortion is a forced miscarriage and a miscarriage is the same thing happening, but not because you caused it, so to speak. I cannot remember the other term for miscarriage, I want to say it is spontaneous abortion.
2006-12-07 23:30:38 · answer #2 · answered by rosey 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are both babies, just an abortion is a hard decision one has to make, and a miscarriage is just the body's way of saying something was wrong...it's usually nothing the mother did...just sad enough nature....and also so sorry about your loss...
2006-12-07 23:15:38 · answer #3 · answered by witchywoman_1977 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well you would think. I am for abortion though and i have had a miscarriage myself.
When i had my miscarriage it hurt me so much but you know i never did think to myself that it was a baby yet.
I think that a baby is not a baby until it is born and breathing on it's own.
Either way abortion or miscarriage, it is painful to go through
Sorry for your loss
2006-12-07 23:41:05 · answer #4 · answered by ஐ♥Julian'sMommy♥ஐ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm so sorry for your loss and a miscarriage is a loss of a baby. No matter when or how it happens, as soon as we know we're pregnant we fall in love with that little life inside of us. When something happens and we lose that baby, it's difficult and painful.
Whoever said it wasn't a baby is nobody you want to waste your time with and I'm so sorry you had people like that in your life.
2006-12-07 23:24:07 · answer #5 · answered by Ria 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because people who are against choice like to use certain rhetoric like calling potential a 'baby' implying it's a person. It's just a way to spread more hatred as that is what the pro-life/anti-choice movement does.
Of course, they don't hate women who have miscarriages, so they don't call miscarriages babies.
What you have noticed is one of the many flaws in the pro-life/anti-woman argument.
2006-12-07 23:12:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually they are all abortions. In the medical world we call them "spontanious abortions" not miscarriages. A person who pays for an abortion is said to have had an "elective abortion."
I'm sorry to hear you've suffered this loss twice, and that people aren't being sympathetic to the enormity of your loss.
2006-12-07 23:13:38 · answer #7 · answered by kherome 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I had an early miscarriage but didn't lose a baby. It was a zygote that lost its potential to become a baby.
I was still very sad because I very much wanted to have a baby. Fortunately my second pregnancy concluded successfully.
2006-12-07 23:18:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well..I believe their reasoning is because, when you have an abortion you are going against nature and killing an otherwise healthy baby.But when you have a miscarriage it's basically nature's way of taking care of a fetus that is either not developin glike it should ro there's a serious health issue, which is true. So I'd say that's their reasoning behind it.
2006-12-07 23:14:06 · answer #9 · answered by babeegurl494 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I suspect it is largely because miscarrying is a medical issue but abortion is also a religious and, unfortunately, a political issue. I agree with you that if one is a baby, so is the other --- only the termination process is different.
2006-12-07 23:19:30 · answer #10 · answered by acablue 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋