A response to: "The termination of an ectopic pregnancy is not an abortion"

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¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
² Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
³ Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
⁴ Department of Emergency Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.
⁵ Department of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA.
⁶ University of California Los Angeles Department of Emergency Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
⁷ Department of Emergency Medicine, Alpert Medial School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
⁸ Department of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
⁹ Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

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Margaret E Samuels-Kalow et al. Acad Emerg Med. 2023 Aug.

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. 2023 Aug;30(8):886-887.

doi: 10.1111/acem.14714. Epub 2023 Mar 28.

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
² Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
³ Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
⁴ Department of Emergency Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.
⁵ Department of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA.
⁶ University of California Los Angeles Department of Emergency Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
⁷ Department of Emergency Medicine, Alpert Medial School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
⁸ Department of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
⁹ Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

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Post-Roe emergency medicine: Policy, clinical, training, and individual implications for emergency clinicians.
Samuels-Kalow ME, Agrawal P, Rodriguez G, Zeidan A, Love JS, Monette D, Lin M, Cooper RJ, Madsen TE, Dobiesz V. Samuels-Kalow ME, et al. Acad Emerg Med. 2022 Dec;29(12):1414-1421. doi: 10.1111/acem.14609. Epub 2022 Nov 3. Acad Emerg Med. 2022. PMID: 36268814 Free PMC article.
The termination of an ectopic pregnancy is not an abortion.
Rowe J, Bitter CC, McGreevy J. Rowe J, et al. Acad Emerg Med. 2023 Aug;30(8):885. doi: 10.1111/acem.14712. Epub 2023 Mar 23. Acad Emerg Med. 2023. PMID: 36869678 No abstract available.

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