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In Texas, where doctors face up to 99 years of prison if convicted of performing an illegal abortion, medical and legal experts say the law is complicating decision-making around emergency pregnancy care.
Although the state law says termination of ectopic pregnancies is not considered abortion, the draconian penalties scare Texas doctors from treating those patients,
When a state used to have maternal outcomes similar to a developing nation’s, then passed some new laws and it got worse, I’d say shitshow is too mild.