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Sorry, wrong once again. Let me go through this so perhaps you can finally understand this. Let's take a definition from MedLine.
Surgical abortion is a procedure that ends an undesired pregnancy by removing the fetus and placenta from the mother's womb (uterus).
Surgical abortion is not the same as miscarriage. Miscarriage is when a pregnancy ends on its own before the 20th week of pregnancy.
A surgical abortion ends an undesired pregnancy. How does it end this pregnancy? By removing the possibility of life for the fetus. This is however different than a miscarriage, because it is done on purpose, rather than naturally through the body. Now, does every miscarriage end with the fetus being removed from the body? No, therefore an abortion is not the removal of the fetus from the person, it is the removal of life from the fetus. Try again.
Doctors also use surgical abortions to remove a dead fetus which has not expelled in timely manner.
If the dead fetus is left inside the woman a life threatening infection can endanger the woman's life so the doctor will perform the surgial abortion to remove the dead fetus.