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In reply to the discussion: Santorum: Our Abortion Was Different [View all]Celebration
(15,812 posts)"The antibiotics brought Karens fever down. The doctor suggested a drug to accelerate her labor.
The cramps were labor, and she was going to get into more active labor, Santorum said. Karen said, `Were not inducing labor, thats an abortion. No way. That isnt going to happen. I dont care what happens.
As her fever subsided, Karen a former neonatal intensive-care nurse asked for something to stop the labor. Her doctors refused, Santorum recalled, citing malpractice concerns.
Santorum said her labor proceeded without having to induce an abortion."
I obviously don't know what happened. I would feel uncomfortable even discussing it except for the fact that he wants to inject the state into the doctor/patient relationship, in a huge way.
But if the facts are as stated, I would NOT call this an abortion. If oxytocin was administered, yes, it would have been. I didn't see that in the article but maybe I missed it.