Zpol
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Unfortunately this is not true. It happens frequently and it's increasing as the rate of women in their child bearing years are increasingly sick with autoimmune disease, viral disease, hormonal cancers, and other disease. These women need meds which harm and even kill the fetus. Also, there's a sharp decrease in progesterone after giving birth, this hormonal issue is a known trigger for the above mentioned diseases and is disabling to the mother and baby if the baby even survives to term. If the baby doesn't survive it still needs to be aborted or there is a higher risk of cancer for the woman plus PTSD.First time I've ever heard that. My understanding was abortions for medical reasons were pretty rare
I am in a network of women who have had to deal these devastating illnesses and the numbers are growing.
I don't think Republicans can truly ban abortion but they can make it legally very difficult to get even when medically necessary.
I suppose I'm biased in regards to this issue since I've known so many womens' health and lives be devastated by wanted pregnancies that ended in abortion. And I don't know a single woman who used abortion as birth control, but I know they are out there so I try to remain hopeful that there's a better option than reversing R v W.