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It also includes access to abortions when it is medically necessary. For example say you have a fetus that will not survive long enough to be born (or to live
by tzs 3y ago
It also includes access to abortions when it is medically necessary.
For example say you have a fetus that will not survive long enough to be born (or to live after a caesarean) and will almost certainly kill the mother long before then unless aborted.
In a few states their anti-abortion laws prohibit doing that abortion until the mother is actually facing imminent death. These cases may be accompanied by agonizing pain for the mother in the days or weeks leading up that imminent death and doctors may not be able to give pain treatments because those could harm the fetus.
Even in states that aren't that extreme many doctors are delaying medically necessary abortions out of fear that prosecutors would disagree with the doctor over what is medically necessary.
Here's a case from Texas that illustrates some of this [1].
[1] https://apnews.com/article/abortion-kate-cox-texas-exceptions-e85664b2ab76bcb689b1b91913d3e33e https://apnews.com/article/abortion-kate-cox-texas-exception...