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,
This is what happens when a political party decides it knows more than doctors. Really pisses me off
You’re giving them way too much credit. They’re not playing doctor, they’re playing “Christian Autocrat” and near-death pregnancies are just the price of doing business.