Politically correct! MIscarriage

I am with you 100%.

Funny, but wrong timing i think, but funny nonetheless. :)

Funny, but wrong timing i think, but funny nonetheless. :)

Exactly the way I feel, I was told that miscarriage implied that the mother had done something wrong, but spontaneous abortion means that it happened without cause.

I agree, I would say miscarriage and not care what others think...

I feel the same way..they needed to justify their jobs..I think sometimes you should just leave well enough alone.

Let's be politically correct here..I think you are a female...Mars is for me..Venus is for women.

Only kidding...

not you too!

Exactly...I was trying to think of a way to put it..you hit the nail on the head!

Well I don't see what the whole comment about Ho had to do with basketball and it was not a matter of being politically correct...he is probably the one who caused the problem with the the Australian Santa being told not to say 'Ho-ho-ho'!

I think it's sad that as Americans we have to qualify everything we say just to remain politically correct. Part of freedom is the ability to say something somebody else might not like. Like Don Imus, the only reason what he said was perceived as racism is because he was talking about an all black basketball team. If he'd have called an all white basketball team, "Nappy-headed Hos" no one would have even cared (except maybe the team). I'm getting off topic here, I'll post the rest in a new discussion.

Labels could be a new discussion in themselves. For a long time it was not pc to say someone is mentally retarded, now it is the approved label and there are parents refusing services to their children if they have to wear it. Developmentally delayed, depending on the state, ceases to be an applicable label at 8, or 10 years old. Learning Disabled is acceptable. Autism, Asbergers, those are okay. I work with the adult mentally handicapped or disabled. Actually I work also with the physically handicapped, not just mentally handicapped. Throw in that I also work with the adult mentally ill. Oh, shoot, I just work with people.

A rose by any other name is still a rose. And while we are talking about something sad..I think that sometimes we should just use the terms we know, we should not offend but is mentally handicapped really different then developmentally disabled. Personally, miscarried is a better term..a woman carries a baby for 40 weeks, if she miscarries - she does not make 40 weeks..I see no blame or guilt

Yes, the words themselves have connotations and abortion has a negative connotation.

I was surprised when I heard the term and felt uncomfortable with it..I now know I am not alone and we all agree.

Yes..this is one example of the stupidity of being PC

I know..to mean a miscarriage meant that a mother 'lost' a baby...through no fault of her own, something that nature intended. Using the word abortion makes it sound ugly....instead of sad and depressing.

I know..to mean a miscarriage meant that a mother 'lost' a baby...through no fault of her own, something that nature intended. Using the word abortion makes it sound ugly....instead of sad and depressing.

Exactly!

I think we will all continue to use the word miscarriage..no one seems to like the alternative one little bit.

Yeah, I think so too. Take care. :)

Exactly, it is a word that we have learned through the years to associate with the loss of a baby, and not a voluntary one either.

That is the way I felt when I was corrected. I prefer miscarriage. I think once again the politically incorrect police are in the wrong.

Exactly...I think the old term is better then the new...

Yes, I agree and it is funny, I had a miscarriage about 23 years ago and that is what it was called. The doctor said there was nothing I could have done and there was probably something wrong with the 'baby' and that is why I had the miscarriage. Spontaneous abortion would have bother me too.

I agree...I think we have taken science a step too far here...sometimes we need to think of compassion and understanding first.

I think a bunch of guys in an office somewhere had to come up with a reason to change miscarriage and that was the reason they gave.

Wow, 100% agreement on this topic up to this point. I wonder how we can get it changed back to miscarriage or at least not the politically correct term.