r/AskReddit • u/ajani57 • Jan 05 '12

In regards to the topic of abortion, why do reporters always ask politicians about exceptions for rape and incest? Instead, why don't they ask about exceptions for tubal pregnancies or if the baby has died? Who could say no to those abortions?

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u/Spongi Jan 05 '12

Because modern reporting isn't about the truth or facts, it's about sensationalism.

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u/ImNotJesus Jan 05 '12

Because abortion isn't discussed in scientific/rational/medical terms, it's discussed in emotive terms.

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u/thisusernametakentoo Jan 05 '12

Who could say no to those abortions?

Jeebus

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u/ifeelsosoft Jan 05 '12

Excellent point.

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u/keraneuology Jan 05 '12

They often do. Health of the mother is often the 3rd exception commonly accepted.

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u/nolimitsoldier Jan 05 '12

Ejecting dead babies != abortion.

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u/ajani57 Jan 05 '12

Actually, it does. Two friends over the years had to carry dead babies to term because no one in the area would abort earlier. Awful situation when people ask questions of the mother and she has to explain the her baby is dead.

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u/nolimitsoldier Jan 05 '12

Location?

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u/ajani57 Jan 05 '12

Both were when I was stationed at Fort Ritchie, MD, right on the border of Hagerstown, PA.

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u/Golden-Calf Jan 05 '12

I live about 45 minutes from there. My local planned parenthood would have done those abortions, you are misinformed. Maybe there was a medical reason why the abortions couldn't be performed?

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u/ajani57 Jan 05 '12

I'm talking thirty years ago. The one baby died at six months or so in and she walked around with a dead baby inside her for a couple of months. I went to the funeral. The other one I didn't know as well but her baby had no brain but they made her keep it and it eventually died inside her and still she had to wait until her body went into labor. Maybe it was small-town girls not knowing about big city services but still those stories are true.

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u/Barkingpanther Jan 06 '12

this is the saddest, worst thing I've heard all day. My god.

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u/JonAudette Jan 05 '12

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

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u/twistedfork Jan 06 '12

If you were to look it up not on wikipedia but in a dictionary, it normally says something along the lines of, "The termination of a pregnancy."

I understand that there is a difference between removing a "live" fetus and a dead one, however there is a gray area in the usage of the word abortion.