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The poster needs the ability to terminate any unplanned pregnancies that may occur
by tomatofarmer 5y ago
The poster needs the ability to terminate any unplanned pregnancies that may occur
- spamizbad 5y agoThe way the Texas law is written it impacts anyone who helps facilitate terminating a pregnancy. Simply walking your friend into an abortion clinic past 6 weeks (which is 6 weeks since the last period) makes you liable.
- DavidVoid 5y agoBanning abortions doesn't just affect unplanned pregnancies. A few weeks after Texas adopted the most restrictive abortion law in the nation, Dr. Andrea Palmer delivered terrible news to a Fort Worth patient who was midway through her pregnancy. The fetus had a rare neural tube defect. The brain would not develop, and the infant would die at birth or shortly afterward. Carrying the pregnancy to term would be emotionally grueling and would also raise the mother’s risk of blood clots and severe postpartum bleeding, the doctor warned. But the patient was past six weeks’ gestation, and under the new law, an abortion was not an option in Texas because the woman was not immediately facing a life-threatening medical crisis or risk of permanent disability. “So we look at them like a ticking time bomb and wait for the complications to develop,” Dr. Palmer said of her patients. In this case, the woman had the means to travel, and she obtained an abortion in another state, an option unavailable to many low-income and working class women. From: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/health/texas-abortion-law-risky-pregnancy.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/health/texas-abortion-law...