A person or fetus can be strangled and not die.
That's why there's the term "strangled to death."
The fetus was strangled but not strangled to death. It had a faint heart beat. It would have died eventually but it would have suffered while it died and it probably would have started to be septic or start growing peritonitis. Both would have killed her or if she lived would have left her infertile. Which would have prevented her 2 other children to have been born. It would have left my cousin a widower and he would have had to go through his life without his soulmate.
They both are orthodox christians. They're very religious and neither believe in divorce or remarrying after a death. It's their faith. So my cousin would have been left without his soulmate when he was in his late 20s.
For your information here's the definition of strangle as you can see, it doesn't always require death:
Full Definition of STRANGLE
transitive verb
1
a
: to choke to death by compressing the throat with something (as a hand or rope)
: throttle
b
: to obstruct
seriously or fatally the normal breathing of
c
: stifle
2
: to suppress or hinder the rise, expression, or growth of <repression
strangles free speech>
And here is the meaning of the word abortion:
Full Definition of ABORTION
1
: the termination of a pregnancy
after, accompanied by, resulting in, or closely followed by the death of the embryo or fetus: as
a
: spontaneous expulsion of a human fetus during the first 12 weeks of gestation — compare
miscarriage
b
: induced expulsion of a human fetus
Now if you look at all of those definitions you will see that the third one B, doesn't require the death after the procedure is done. If you see the second definition A, that also doesn't require the fetus to be dead after the abortion is performed.
If you're from a family that has a lot of people who work in the medical profession as I do, you will also look at the medical dictionary to find the REAL definition of an abortion. Which is the following:
abortion
/abor·tion/(ah-bor´shun)
1. expulsion from the uterus of the products of conception before the fetus is viable.
2. premature stoppage of a natural or a pathological process.
An abortion is stopping a pregnancy. Whether the fetus is alive or not inside the womb.
An abortion doesn't always end in terminating the fetus. The fetus can already be dead before the abortion is performed.
Now, who is the idiot here?