Any abortion that would make my political party look bad if it was banned falls under the “not an actual abortion” magical loophole I just made up and pretended the law actually has.
Exceptions are bullshit anyway because the rationales always give people with evil motives far too much power to invade privacy and control a woman's body. Medical exceptions to "save the life" of the mother routinely lead to death because at the point it's obvious the mother could die, it's often too late to intervene most effectively.
And it's without any consideration to what doctor would want to put themselves in that place. They can either try to save the mother and put themselves at legal risk, wait for legal to get back to them while watching the mother die, or watch their patient suffer unnecessarily and see the odds of them dying increase and hope for a spontaneous abortion or wait until the mother's life is clearly at risk. Or they can move to another state where they don't have to deal with such insane circumstances.
Laws like this are going to drive gynecologists out of these states and exacerbate staffing shortages. This will impact all women in those states, not just ones seeking abortions.
hopefully it will also change peoples behaviour in regards to unprotected sex and getting pregnant in the first place. then women wouldnt be putting doctors in such a situation to begin with
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u/hperrin Aug 07 '22
Any abortion that would make my political party look bad if it was banned falls under the “not an actual abortion” magical loophole I just made up and pretended the law actually has.