Snoofy, you kind of went off on a rant, but in it you did direct a question to me along the gist of "ending an ectopic pregnancy is ending a life", and that should cause some form of moral dilemma for me. At least I felt that was the intent, perhaps it was the intent to infer this could cause a coding issue for the doctor to record the procedure.

Addressing the first possible intent, my personal take on abortion is that it does end a life and that should be acknowledged. It's also my personal take that life and conscious life are different(to me), and that does allow for compassionate abortions. Daily life is not a collection of black and white issues and experiences, and while I found it incredibly unfortunate to end a life to ensure the safety of the mother, I feel strongly that an abortion in that case should be acceptable. So there is no moral dilemma there for me.

I believe that since you asked the question others have addressed that there shouldn't be a coding issue for ectopic vs abortion. If there is an legal ambiguity then it should be of the highest order to address in the law.

#25 - HOLY S****. A post on this site that it reminiscent of the quality of discourse this site had back in the day when I first joined. Thanks for bringing a bit of sanity Sentinel.

#18 you all want this SOOOOOO badly to be unclear, but it's not.

even in legalese it's pretty plain language that treating an ectopic pregnancy will not be considered an abortion, and doesn't need to be reported as one.

Twist it around all you like, it's what the doctors that vote left are doing by pretending they're afraid of this, but it's political theater and pretty disgusting.