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Originally Posted by Aliantha
Not it's not a miscarriage if it lives for even a minute. It's considered a live birth.
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Correct.
There is a lot of misunderstanding surrounding this discussion. Medicine is not as pure as it looks on the face. I suspect that even Santorum is miss-using the term which is confusing everyone else.
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.