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No. The medical terminology has no bearing on the legal terminology. In medical practice abortion can be synonymous with miscarriage, similar to how ‘anorexia’ can clinically mean loss of appetite. For legal purposes an ‘abortion’ is the willful termination of a pregnancy before it’s viability date. No one is going to let a woman go septic with a dead baby because a doctor calls it a ‘spontaneous abortion’. If an actual abortion is suspected and it’s a penalized act then they will do urine test for mifepristone. A woman who hasn’t procured drugs for illegal purposes has literally nothing to be afraid of.Technically removal of an already dead fetus is still an abortion. I would hope red states allow women to abort fetuses that have already died.