A miscarriage isn’t an abortion, and a rotting corpse isn’t a baby.

What the title says. An abortion is deliberately ending a pregnancy. A miscarriage ends a pregnancy. You can’t abort a miscarriage. All that’s left is a corpse. Removing the dead and rotting corpse left behind by a miscarriage isn’t an abortion because the pregnancy is already over.

Usually the woman’s body will either absorb or expel the corpse, but sometimes it gets stuck inside a woman’s womb. Removing the now rotting corpse of what used to be a fetus, a corpse poisoning and trying to kill the woman, isn’t an abortion. Preventing the removal of the rotting corpse is close enough to attempted murder as makes no difference.

The procedure might look the same, but it isn’t an abortion. So I’ll propose the word “necrectomy”, to refer to the procedure of removing a dead and rotting fetus from a woman’s womb. That way there will be no confusing it with an abortion.

What to do?

Use “corpse” in debate on this specific aspect of the abortion debate. Being PC in this case does no one any good.

In addition, “necrotomy” to talk about the procedures by which a dead fetus is removed from a woman when her body doesn’t expell it on its own. It’s not an abortion, so using the language of abortion will confuse the issue.