Nekima je suludo, nekima nije. No, svima koji ne zatvaraju oči bilo je očekivano da će se to događati. Jesi pročitala o iskustvu Irske prije nego je 2018. referendumom ukinuta zabranu pobačaja u toj zemlji: zabrana pobačaja ne smanjuje broj pobačaja, ali povećava smrtnost onih koji ga traže, a nemaju mu siguran pristup. U štogod tebi bilo komforno vjerovati, činjenica je da zabrana pobačaja nije spašavanje života nego kozmetička demonstracija sile uz ogromnu cijenu.
Jedan od najuglednijih i najcjenjenijih medicinskih časopisa,
The Lancet, kratko je to sažeo: „The Justices who vote to strike down Roe will not succeed in ending abortion, they will only succeed in ending safe abortion. Alito and his supporters will have women's blood on their hands.“
A ovo stvarno ne mogu vjerovati da doista misliš o nama. Da, ne bi čovjek povjerovao koje smo sretnice s tolikim asevima na desetku - ugledni medicinski časopis
The New England Journal of Medicine izvještava o recentnim iskustvima iz kliničke prakse u Texasu:
Many patients we interviewed described feeling hurt and confused when they learned their condition was not exempt from SB8 and they could not receive care in their home state. After receiving fetal diagnoses of spina bifida and trisomy 18, a 39-year-old woman was shocked that her physician would not even inform her about termination options. She said, “When you already have received news like that and can barely function, the thought of then having to do your own investigating to determine where to get this medical care and to arrange going out of state feels additionally overwhelming.”
Clinicians we interviewed recounted a variety of circumstances in which a patient could have received hospital-based abortion care before SB8 but was now denied that care. Patients with a life-limiting fetal diagnosis, such as anencephaly or bilateral renal agenesis, are only being counseled to continue their pregnancy and offered neonatal comfort care options after delivery. All hospitals where our respondents practiced have prohibited multifetal reduction, even though in some cases (e.g., complications of monochorionic twins) failure to perform the procedure could result in the loss of both twins.
Patients with pregnancy complications or preexisting medical conditions that may be exacerbated by pregnancy are being forced to delay an abortion until their conditions become life-threatening and qualify as medical emergencies, or until fetal cardiac activity is no longer detectable. An MFM specialist reported that their hospital no longer offers treatment for ectopic pregnancies implanted in cesarean scars, despite strong recommendations from the Society for Maternal–Fetal Medicine that these life-threatening pregnancies be definitively managed with surgical or medical treatment.
4 Some clinicians believe that patients with rupture of membranes before fetal viability are eligible for a medical exemption under SB8, while others believe these patients cannot receive an abortion so long as there is fetal cardiac activity. In multiple cases, the treating clinicians — believing, on the basis of their own or their hospital’s interpretation of the law, that they could not provide early intervention — sent patients home, only to see them return with signs of sepsis. An obstetrician–gynecologist recalled only one patient who was able to obtain an abortion at their hospital under SB8’s maternal health exemption, because her severe cardiac condition had progressed to the point that she was admitted to the intensive care unit. As an MFM specialist summarized, “People have to be on death’s door to qualify for maternal exemptions to SB8.”