Doctors are *already* waiting until people suffering from ectopic pregnancy are experiencing a drop in blood pressure indicating they are bleeding out.

Abortion bans with no exception for lethal fetal abnormalities are *already* in place.

These bans state “medical emergency to save the life of the mother.” Not “If you continue with this pregnancy you will have a medical emergency” No. They require doctors to *wait until the woman is dying.*

Know what’s not an un-enumerated right? Life.

Fetuses are not citizens. People with uteruses are. Although, of course, that’s not in the constitution either.

The only way to ensure that medically necessary abortions take place before the woman is bleeding out because doctors are afraid of being put in jail is to guarantee the right to an abortion.

You do realize abortion in cases where mother and fetus will both 100% die is “controversial” to some people? That we have lawgivers who think ectopic pregnancies can be reimplanted?

Take a look around you.

Here’s a case in Missouri where a doctor was forced to leave a woman with an ectopic pregnancy (100% chance of both dying) in agony for half a day while the hospital ethics board ruled whether he would be allowed to save his patient’s life: https://www.statnews.com/2022/07/05/a-scary-time-fear-of-prosecution-forces-doctors-to-choose-between-protecting-themselves-or-their-patients/.

Here’s another consequence: Doctors are no longer prescribing methotrexate to anyone who can become pregnant. This is used to treat lupus, long COVID, rheumatoid arthritis. Methotrexate is one of the drugs used in medication abortions.

Doctors in Texas are sending women home to wait until they go into sepsis after incomplete miscarriages. One woman had to fly out of state while in partial labor at 19 weeks to get care.

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/06/23/texas-abortion-law-doctors-delay-care/

*I* am not the one confusing elective abortions with medically necessary treatment. They are saying “It’s elective until you are on death’s door then you’d better hope your physician moves fast.”

Regardless of one’s feelings on elective abortions, these judges knew that citizens would die if they ruled this way, overturning a settled precedent. They did it anyway.

How is that protecting people’s rights? Oh wait, you don’t believe that’s their job. Their job is to ensure we never get any rights that existed after a time when women and Black people were property, per you.

Think about that. Sit with it.