More than 100 pregnant women in medical distress who sought help from emergency rooms were turned away or negligently treated since 2022.

In Texas, where doctors face up to 99 years of prison if convicted of performing an illegal abortion, medical and legal experts say the law is complicating decision-making around emergency pregnancy care.

Although the state law says termination of ectopic pregnancies is not considered abortion, the draconian penalties scare Texas doctors from treating those patients,

  • takeda@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Although the state law says termination of ectopic pregnancies is not considered abortion, the draconian penalties scare Texas doctors from treating those patients

    This. The same thing is happening in Poland. Doctors don’t want to risk going to jail, so you might die, because politicians decided to make decisions for the doctors to appeal to the “Taliban”.

    Then they are surprised the population is on decline and people are afraid to have kids.

    If they really wanted to solve the demographic problem, they should stop stalking from the citizens and do everything to help middle class to prosper. People won’t have kids, if they can barely survive themselves and now they can even die.