[unspun]

The author of the article is not talking about ectopic pregnancies. Though it does end a pregnancy, removing a fetus growing in the fallopian tube is not even considered an abortion. The pregnancy is not considered viable.

And that, frankly, is a distinction without a difference. Death is death, alas.

[knuthom]

There is a difference. In an abortion, the fetal death is most often unnecessary. In an ectopic pregnancy, it is generally unavoidable. They may both be dead, but one was a "choice".