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> right now there is nowhere in the country where if a pregnant woman’s life is threatened by her pregnancy then she cannot legally obtain a medical abortion.
by nop_slide 2y ago
> right now there is nowhere in the country where if a pregnant woman’s life is threatened by her pregnancy then she cannot legally obtain a medical abortion.
This literally happened very recently
https://www.propublica.org/article/nevaeh-crain-death-texas-abortion-ban-emtala https://www.propublica.org/article/nevaeh-crain-death-texas-...
- eadmund 2y ago[flagged]
- sn 2y agoThe doctors had to be so certain that it was life threatening before acting that once they decided it was life-threatening, she was already going to die no matter what they did. And this is not an isolated incident. The law has to allow for more uncertainty for the carve-out to be effective.
- daedrdev 2y agoThis might blow your mind, but for a condition to truly be life treating some people will probably die even if they have treatment, otherwise by definition it would not be a life threatening condition. For example doctors have to wait for sepsis to actually occur before treatment, thus some will die because they loose to the infection