re: #200 Pythagoras

Ectopic pregnancies are terminated in almost every hospital in the US (including, for example, Catholic hospitals) and aren’t even counted as abortions.

Interestingly, the procedure now known as partial birth abortion was not originally counted as an abortion either, nor were several of the surgical procedures that terminate late term pregnancies in cases where the fetus is already severely damaged and/or the mother’s life or health are at risk.

Again, this was due to the anti-choice, so-con, theocrat agenda. And the Bush Admin’s acquiesence to it. They successfully redefined these procedures as ‘abortions’, and have been moving to do the same with even birth control and emergency contraception.

en.wikipedia.org

This is the history of the use of this term for political purposes:
en.wikipedia.org

And finally, here is a story about what that legislation actually accomplished: it denied mothers, who desperately wanted to carry their pregnancies to term, a chance to say goodbye.
barryyeoman.com

The entire purpose of the legislation was to redefine abortion and make it easier to outlaw all forms of abortion— and to prosecute doctors for performing them, and intimidate them into not performing them.

There has been an ongoing war on reproductive rights in this country for years. It is myopic to see it purely in terms of Roe v Wade. It is not.