After the Supreme Court struck down federal abortion protections, people with disabilities are considering the risks of pregnancy while taking medications that could harm a fetus.
French, who is also the chief medical officer of the Epilepsy Foundation, added that the risk of death during pregnancy for a person with epilepsy is 10 times the risk for a person without epilepsy, partly because patients may stop taking their medication while pregnant without consulting a doctor.
“What would be my concern is if they go in to have a checkup, and they find out that [the fetus has] got a serious birth defect but they want to get an abortion and aren’t able to,” Pam said.Some states with abortion bans make exceptions if the mother’s life is at stake. But Powell, the legal scholar, said she expects this criterion to be “stringently defined,” and anticipates that physicians will be “very hesitant” to perform abortions where they are criminalized or restricted.
“Every state pro-life law in effect specifically prohibits actions which intentionally cause the death of an unborn child,” Stephen Billy, executive director of the Charlotte Lozier Institute, an antiabortion research group, said in a statement. “Doctors who prescribe teratogenic medications for the treatment of mental health or chronic health conditions are not doing so for the purpose of causing an abortion.
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