Women face many possible illnesses during pregnancy, including premature rupture of membranes, severely high blood pressure, diabetes, hemorrhaging, cancers, and heart disease. As an obstetrician-gynecologist who used to provide abortions early in my training, I know that intentional feticide is never necessary even in the worst-case scenarios. …
Dr. Byron Calhoun, a high-risk OB-GYN who serves much of the state of West Virginia and sees these severe cases daily, agrees there is never a need to directly end the life of the unborn child in order to save the mother. “The baby may be delivered prematurely and die from that but it is never necessary to kill the baby to save the mother’s life,” he wrote to me.
In fact, most conditions can be treated without preterm delivery. “The severe preeclamptic may be observed until the mother’s medical condition requires delivery,” he says. “Unless the mother is bleeding to death, severe heart failure, or septic; there is usually time to wait and see if the baby will make it to resuscitation age at 22+ weeks.”
Chemotherapy for a pregnant mother that tragically results in miscarriage is not an elective abortion. Treatment for an ectopic pregnancy is not an elective abortion. Preterm delivery for an infection is not an elective abortion. These women are and have been thoroughly cared for and treated for their pregnancy complications before, during, and after Roe v. Wade. But abortion advocates want you to think these cases are compromised in post-Roe America and bundled up in the wrongly dubbed “rights” they are fighting for, in order to keep the abortion-on-demand culture alive.
[There is much more on this from Dr. Bruchalski, so be sure to read it all. — Ed]
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