[Stormieweather]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Induced labor of a viable infant where the baby is born and lives for one minute is a live birth. Induced labor of a non-viable infant is not a medically induced abortion, regardless of date of confinement or conception.

The term abortion is restricted to a viable fetus regardless of date of confinement or conception.

This is NOT true. From the good old Merriam Webster dictionary -

abor·tion noun \ə-ˈbȯr-shən\
Definition of ABORTION
1: the termination of a pregnancy after, accompanied by, resulting in, or closely followed by the death of the embryo or fetus: as
a : spontaneous expulsion of a human fetus during the first 12 weeks of gestation — compare miscarriage

b : induced expulsion of a human fetus

Another definition:

Abortion is defined as the termination of pregnancy by the removal or expulsion from the uterus of a fetus or embryo prior to viability.

An abortion can occur spontaneously, in which case it is usually called a miscarriage, or it can be purposely induced.
The term abortion most commonly refers to the induced abortion of a human pregnancy.

From http://www.prochoice.org/pubs_resear...l_abortion.pdf

A medical abortion is one that is brought about by taking
medications that will end a pregnancy. The alternative is
surgical abortion, which ends a pregnancy by emptying the
uterus (or womb) with special instruments. Either of two
medications, mifepristone or methotrexate, can be used for
medical abortion. Each of these medications is taken
together with another medication, misoprostol, to induce
an abortion