if therapy is the treatment of physical mental or social disorders or disease and that is a mainstream definition that applies to medicine and psychology we would only be able to label abortion as therapeutic if we agree that pregnancy is always a disease or disorder if the woman does not wish the pregnancy to continue while some times a pregnancy is diseased or disordered most pregnancies are not diseased or disordered and most pregnancies that are diseased or disordered end up as spontaneous abortions natural miscarriages that are usually very early in the pregnancy and often go unnoticed by the gravid woman but candor forces us to admit that the gravid woman's desire to not be pregnant does not turn a healthy pregnancy into a disease or disorder this article should reflect medical physical and metaphysical reality not talking points for a large lobbying group