Though the law makes an exception for medical emergencies, her doctor told her its...
both on those with planned and unplanned pregnancies. It also foreshadows the difficult decisions Texans and other Southerners will be forced to make if the longstanding constitutional right to an abortion is stricken and redIf the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision protecting that right, as a leaked draft opinion indicates it may, all abortions in Texas would become illegal within 30 days under a trigger law passed by the Legislature last year.
if there is “danger of death or a serious risk of substantial impairment of a major bodily function.” For doctors, the threat of a lawsuit and the possibility of losing their medical licenses makes the calculation of what constitutes an emergency a lot more weighty, said Elizabeth Sepper, a law professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
Seago suggested medical groups like ACOG are not putting out sufficient guidance for physicians because they disagree with anti-abortion laws. “It’s not that the law says we can’t take care of them, but it’s very ambiguous, the language in the law, so each doctor is going to interpret that differently, each hospital group is going to interpret that differently, and that’s in the back of everybody’s minds,” she said.The doctor recalled a recent case in which a woman who was 20 weeks pregnant came in with bleeding. Her baby would not survive outside the womb at that age, and the woman’s life was in danger.
As the couple reviewed options, Morris’ oncologist let her know that there were few tests to measure the progress of her cancer that could be done while she was pregnant and few safe treatment options that wouldn’t hurt the baby. Keeping the baby would mean allowing the cancer to grow mostly unchecked until after delivery.
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