It means OBGYN care in general is taking a giant nose dive. People don’t understand the terminology. “Abortion” is a medical procedure. Terminate a pregnancy: abortion. Expedite a miscarriage so mom doesn’t bleed to death: abortion. Remove a dead baby from the womb so a carcass doesn’t rot inside mom: abortion in the third trimester.
It’s all the same in a medical chart because medicine doesn’t make religious-political distinctions in their procedures, they’re just procedures.
Medical care should be private for no other reason than to keep this crap out of health care. Isn’t privacy what HIPAA was supposed to be about?
How do you even reconcile some of these state abortion laws with HIPAA, which is federal? Isn’t federal supposed to override state?
Exactly.
This is terrifying for married women. Conceiving a child in marriage is very dangerous in these states.
This fringe group that wants to target “sin” is really just targeting any woman with a functional uterus who is still firing eggs from her ovaries.