'This is what we can accomplish in this moment,' Democratic Rep. Ann Johnson said after Abbott signed into law an abortion exception for ectopic pregnancies.
after her water broke at 18 weeks of pregnancy. The hospital finally agreed to induce her after she showed up at the emergency room. “We shouldn’t have to bring our own bodily fluids for them to believe that we’re getting sick,” Weller told Jezebel earlier this year. Weller is part of aThe law’s new additions help protect physicians who provide abortion care from the bounty hunter law’s $10,000 civil suit, as well as disciplinary action from the medical board.
The representative, who hails from Houston, told NPR that she believes anti-choice politicians were only trying to end an “elective procedure on a completely healthy fetus,” but the way the law was written left everyone in a bind.
However, this bill doesn’t help people who are seeking abortions in other contexts. “Yes, there are absolutely other pregnancy complications,” Johnson told NPR. “This is what we can accomplish in this moment. In this moment, we could get bipartisan agreement of the recognition of ectopic pregnancy and ruptured membrane.”looks forward to doing more in future legislative sessions. “To me, it is a first step,” she told the radio outlet. “I just very strongly feel we need to do more.
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