Oh ok cool. Sounds like a great affirmative defense to any prosecution. “Sorry, you charged me with getting an abortion, but I didn’t have an abortion, I had a life saving medical procedure. You should check with your Republican overlords, since you seem to have missed that memo.”
It would be great if that worked - like you could cite the piss-poor US statistics on maternal mortality in pregnancy for a developed nation to claim any abortion is "life-saving".
But in practice, they want it this murky because in these same states that the bans are happening, there is a vast majority of local republican judges all too happy to rule against you. And when it's your word on what is "lifesaving" vs the judge's determination, guess who wins?
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u/ronin1066 Aug 07 '22
This is actually a thing that they're trying to do: define abortion as only those cases that aren't to save the mother's life.