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  Other doctors I spoke to were especially wary in front of colleagues they hadn’t met before. At a training for non-ob-gyn physicians, a doctor hesitated over which words to use. “Even me saying the words ‘spontaneous abortion,’ which really is the medical term for a miscarriage, I felt like I was cursing in front of a group of executives,” the doctor said. Under the circumstances, some doctors are now using creative ways to convey that women could seek abortions out of state, by bringing up the fabulous weather in Colorado and implying that they could get a second opinion there. “I want to believe that everyone understands what we mean when we say that, but I don’t actually know,” a maternal-fetal-medicine specialist in San Antonio said. “We haven’t been able to say, specifically, ‘If that’s something that you want, you can go to this clinic in this other state.’ ”