the left scared medical professionals by stressing that they could face criminal charges.
In 2019, Republican legislators in Ohio introduced a bill that threatened doctors with prosecution for "abortion murder" if they did not take steps to "reimplant an ectopic pregnancy" into the uterus a procedure that is not medically possible. Three years later, a GOP state representative in Missouri put forth legislation that would make it a felony to terminate an ectopic pregnancy.
Although those bills did not ultimately become law, other anti-abortion legislation has curtailed access to life-saving treatment for ectopic pregnancies.
"Many abortion bans, like the Florida ban, use broad language defining abortion as ending a pregnancy in any way other than birth," noted Nan Strauss, the senior policy analyst for maternal health at National Partnership for Women and Families.
That kind of definition leaves room for the criminalization of ectopic pregnancy treatment, forcing health providers and administrators to tread carefully.
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Typical right-wingers - creating problems then blaming the left.
DOGE will find $1 trillion in savings "next year".