Roe vs Wade - very triggering for ectopic pregnancy

[Superstorefan123]

Deep down I know I’m being over sensitive but just feeling upset and can’t discuss this with anyone in real life :(

To start this off I want to say I am 100% pro-choice and believe in access to abortion for any reason.

I’ve found the language used by lots of celebrities in response to Roe vs. Wade very triggering (see the below image, posted hundreds of times, saying ‘treatment for ectopic pregnancy is abortion’).

I understand in principle that the treatment for ectopic is the same as treatment for abortion - you terminate a pregnancy - but it feels so awful to label it in such a way when many women (myself included) have absolutely tortured ourselves over the termination of our much loved and wanted babies. It is an abortion in medical terms but in physical (your life is at risk) and emotional terms the outcome is often very different.

Of course it’s a massive concern that ectopic treatment could be at risk of being disallowed in the states, with life threatening consequences. So in a way I understand why they are saying this. I don’t know - it’s just left me feeling rubbish and with an even greater weight of blame than I felt before :(

Not read the full thread so someone may have said this already, if so I apologise:

@Superstorefan123 if it helps, abortion is just a word and a word with its origins in the Latin word ‘aborior’ which means ‘away from’, which is true of both abortion that is intended and that which is spontaneous. And you don’t need to feel any guilt, your ectopic pregnancy was no more viable than any other that ends in miscarriage. I hope you feel better about it all soon.