Who is affected by the Supreme Court ruling?
Women experiencing a medical crisis late in pregnancy — a diagnosis of breast cancer, for instance — that makes continuing the pregnancy medically risky might have been candidates for partial-birth abortion. Under the ban on that procedure, doctors must consider other options for ending the pregnancy, usually by inducing delivery and having the mother undergo “labor” to pass the fetus. Some doctors argue that this can take longer than partial-birth abortion and poses more risk, including that of severe bleeding or infection, to the mother. How do doctors discuss abortion with patients? Davis notes that many women have already decided to terminate their pregnancy before they seek a doctor’s counsel. Depending on the doctor, a woman likely will be encouraged to consider her own moral and religious beliefs, her health status, her stage of life and the possibility of continuing the pregnancy and putting the child up for adoption. A doctor also may talk to the woman about what is important
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