How the anti-abortion movement turns to pseudoscience to conceal its hostility for abortion-seeking women, by onesarahjones
Two women from Texas talk to each other about traveling to Oklahoma as they recover from their abortions at the Trust Women clinic in Oklahoma City. Photo: Evelyn Hockstein/REUTERS Here is a scientific fact: Ectopic pregnancies are not viable. They occur when a fertilized egg implants outside the uterus, which dooms the pregnancy and, without treatment, can doom a woman, too.
For proof, examine the movement’s record. Anti-abortion activists commonly make a variety of medical and scientific claims about contraception and abortion that have no evidential basis. They have insisted that abortion leads to cancer, infertility, and psychological disorders. The owners of Hobby Lobby believed that intrauterine devices, or IUDs, and the Plan B pill cause abortions.
Take, for example, a recent NPR story documenting the case of a Texas woman who experienced an early stillbirth. At high risk for sepsis, a deadly blood infection, the woman needed a termination but could not procure one in Texas because of the state’s restrictive new abortion laws. She had to take a flight to the nearest state that would provide the procedure. “I had to come up with a game plan with my OB in case I went into labor on the flight.
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