Op-Ed: Abortion ban 'exceptions' cannot protect life (via latimesopinion)
From Mexico to Argentina, prosecutors have relied on the ‘flotation test’ to convict women of killing their babies. But the test is often wrong.criminalizing all abortions
Facing the legal requirement to “save both” mother and fetus, the doctors opted to hospitalize the woman, planning to monitor her closely until the fetus reached viability. They monitored her for seven weeks. Then the woman’s heart gave out. She died along with her prematurely delivered infant, and her two children were orphaned.
When I present data like these to American audiences, even people who support abortion restrictions are appalled by the results of El Salvador’s draconian abortion law. Yet those results preview what the U.S. now faces.The rise and fall of Roe tells a complicated story about where our rights come from, and what we can do to defend them.
The truth is, there is no magical moment in which it becomes clear that a woman’s life is imminently endangered by her pregnancy. Medical conditions can change gradually over time, or rapidly within minutes. What might be a life-threatening condition in one patient might be survivable in another.
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