Some doctors in Texas are so worried about the abortion bans, they hint to patients with pregnancy complications, 'I've heard traveling to Colorado is really nice this time of year.'
There is an exception in Texas law that allows abortion when a woman's life or a"major bodily function" is in imminent danger. But it's not uncommon for there to be pregnancy complications — like Lauren Miller's — where many doctors would consider it to be the standard of care to offer abortion as an option. Those are the kind of circumstances where physicians feel like they can't be fully truthful about a patient's options without risking a lawsuit.
"First, all of them exempt the pregnant person," Sepper explains."Second, none of them apply outside the borders of Texas, so abortions performed in Colorado or California are not covered.", an anti-abortion rights group, concurs with Sepper's interpretation of the law."Our Texas Alliance for Life attorneys believe there is a constitutional right to interstate travel," she says.
She recalls one Texas patient whose fetus had acrania, where the fetus has no skull. It's a fatal condition for the fetus."That was a doctor who didn't tell her, 'Go get care out-of-state,'" says Espey."She was an immigrant. It took her six weeks to figure out she could travel to New Mexico for an abortion and get the logistics and finances together to be able to go.
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