Abortion Done While "Alive"

There's an interesting news article about a woman who was told she had miscarried, only to then find out a month later that the baby was just fine.

At the time that she had supposedly miscarried, she was offered an abortion drug. When she found out that the baby was indeed alive, she could hardly believe it.

Catherine said:

What if I had taken the tablets they offered me? They could have left my baby severely disabled, or it could have died?

They could've aborted my baby while it was alive, how can the hospital make a mistake like that?

How many other people have taken the tablets or had an abortion when their baby was alive all the time?

The nurse should have got another doctor to check me properly.

You can't just rule a baby's life out without getting it double-checked.

I think it's an interesting twist of phrase to say that an abortion would be done while a baby is alive. Certainly she means that she thought she had already miscarried. However, by definition, all abortions are done while the baby is alive. That's why the abortion is called for- to stop the living.