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Poppy Noor

What’s the difference between miscarriage and abortion? For some women, it’s hard to tell

Abortion rights protesters demonstrate in Los Angeles, California, on June 27, 2022.
Abortion rights protesters demonstrate in Los Angeles, California, on June 27, 2022. Photograph: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters

Zoé Champion was 19 when she had an abortion. She was 26 when she realized it was an abortion.

Champion, who was sitting her high school exams in France at the time, had developed a pregnancy outside the uterus, threatening to rupture her fallopian tubes – a condition medically known as an ectopic pregnancy. The doctors intervened immediately, ending the pregnancy and saving her life.

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