Texas Abortion Limits Struck Down by U.S. Supreme Court

[mercuryblues]

64. Texas and other states

have more laws that need to go.


When prayers are your only legal medical options for a failed pregnancy.

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/04/01/cruel-texas-republicans-force-women-deliver-dead-babies.html

The Mahaffey family were desperate for a child and had been praying incessantly for a baby. But when 20-week pregnant Taylor learned her fetus suffered a severe complication with no possible chance of ever surviving, the young couple cried and then prayed for a humane end to their fetus’ suffering. In fact, doctors and the medical staff cried along with the Mahaffey’s; in part because of the couple’s disappointment and grief, and partly because Texas Republicans passed a law mandating that the mother and fetus had to suffer because they enacted a religion-based “fetal pain” law.

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The doctors told the couple “The only humane thing to do would be to pop the sack, and let the fetus come into the world and die.” However, due to the religious law the doctors were “forbidden to induce labor because in Texas it is considered an abortion,” and in Texas, abortion is illegal. They sent the couple home to either “wait for the fetus to die in utero,” or for the mother to begin “natural” labor so they could deliver the dead baby.

The religious couple prayed constantly for “a miracle that might end their baby’s suffering.” The husband was rightly worried his wife would hemorrhage to death and despite the mother had started bleeding, because the fetus’ heart still beat doctors could not legally interfere. This is going on while the woman was “just screaming at them to get the fetus out of her.”

The young woman suffered like that for four days and after her “waters broke” doctors delivered a dead, partially formed “baby.” Now, this cruelty is not down to the medical professionals in Texas; they desperately wanted to help relieve the religious couple’s suffering, but religious Republicans said no.