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To: Ilaine who wrote (4935)11/5/2005 1:16:36 PM
From: Lane3  Respond to of 541965
 
I suppose you could argue that it's also a woman's choice to have a therapeutic abortion rather than die or suffer permanent health injury, but that's not the way the term is used.

Therapeutic abortions are a subset of elective abortions.

You and I had a related discussion once before, specifically the wrinkle about how elective abortions have been done in VA--you check the box labeled "therapeutic" when you go in for one. If you ignorantly check the wrong box, the nice lady corrects it for you. Which makes it, in actual usage, effectively a synonym of "elective."

Maybe we should just call them "good" and "bad" abortions. <g>