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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey
On a non-Santorum-specific tangent:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_labor
It also lists fetal death (and I know I've heard of people inducing labor for dead fetuses), so there are at least two possible reasons to induce labor on a non-viable fetus. |
Yeah, I get that, although I think it's very rare for parents to elect to go through a labour in the case of a dead fetus, and I doubt doctors would generally recommend labour as an option for a fetus with no chance of survival. I would think it would only be for theological reasons in general, and those cases would be rare.
So I guess I admit to being wrong about it not being a fact, but I don't think it's a highly common procedure.
I just don't think the term is applicable to the santorum situation either, simply for the fact that he's misusing the term.