Will Pro-life Laws Really Kill Women?
Since May 2, when Politico outed a leaked draft of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision restoring the right of states to ban abortion, major media have been wailing that restrictive laws in pro-life states will threaten both women’s lives and physician’s licenses. Once SCOTUS finally routed Roe v. Wade with its Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling on June 24, media’s collective apoplexy reached a fever pitch.
“Pregnant women face increasingly dangerous risks as doctors flee punitive US states,” shrieks The Guardian, warning of coming “maternity care deserts” in places where legislation protects the unborn. Of those left in the wastelands, NPR lamented that “many physicians will be caught in a bind: unable to fulfill their professional obligations to provide care to their pregnant patients because of state laws that forbid it.”
Just days before SCOTUS finalized its decision, CNN broadcast a story warning that women were already being denied prenatal care in states with more restrictive abortion laws. The report focused on Marlena Stell, a Texas YouTuber and cosmetics marketer who said that she “was forced to walk around for at least two weeks with fetal remains inside her” after she miscarried. She blamed the state’s 2021 “heartbeat” bill banning most abortions after cardiac activity can be detected in an embryo, at about six weeks.
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