Abortion bans have exceptions to save a pregnant person's life, but the laws aren't clear about when a life is in danger, some are noticing.
In 2009, Julie Bindeman the mother of one, pregnant with a second child, learns her fetus has severe brain abnormalities.
What would have happened to Bindeman had she been in one of the eight states that rolled out near-total abortion bans after the fall of Roe v. Wade? They do allow for abortion when a pregnant patient's health or life is at risk. Two states, Alabama and Missouri, allow for abortion to avoid risk to the pregnant person's health; specifically, the potential"impairment of a major bodily function."
Arkansas and Oklahoma both say it's any deadly"physical disorder, physical illness or physical injury." "While it may say there are exceptions to this abortion ban for the life of the mother or the pregnant person, that's not actually medically meaningful for us, because there's not a bright line someone crosses and then suddenly is dying," Dr. Villavicencio said.
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