User talk:84.146.240.137

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The definition you replaced it with: "An induced abortion performed for personal, social or economic reasons" includes every possible reason for abortion - it is a 'personal' reason to abort if the foetus is deformed, or if you will die because of the pregnancy. Given all induced abortions are said to fall into 'elective' and 'therapeutic', the only way for these categories to be inclusive is for one to be exclusive of the other definition.

I have no qualms with abortion most often being because the mother does not want a child, as for it most often being 'birth control' there's quite a large debate on that matter - I would not class an elective abortion of a pregnancy started because of a failure of normal birth control as a type of birth control. This makes condemning its use as such much easier.

On the point of the obsetrics definition of pregnancy - that doesn't apply in terms of abortion, and the intro defines abortion perfectly without need for further clarification. Spaully 13:29, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

My point on IUDs is that these are not considered to cause abortion, or seen as a method of causing abortion. The same can be said for the morning-after pill.
While the definition of pregnancy currently in the article may be disputed, it is the correct definition in terms of looking at abortion. The abortion article is not the right place to discuss the accuracy of this definition, and indeed this definition is needed to define and deal with abortion. Spaully 13:48, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
The revised sentance you've put is good, I'll agree with that. Just need to iron out the definition of 'elective' now :). Spaully 13:50, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

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