"Elizabeth could not receive the medical care she needed."
~ Carrie Feibel
"How Texas abortion law turned a pregnancy loss into a medical trauma" : Shots - Health News : NPR
"'I can tell that she's been beat down, because she has been trying to fight for me all day, advocating on my behalf,' Elizabeth says. 'And she starts to cry and she tells me: 'They're not going to touch you.' And that 'you can either stay here and wait to get sick where we can monitor you, or we discharge you and you monitor yourself. Or you wait till your baby's heartbeat stops.'
It was because of the state law which forbids termination of a pregnancy as long as there is fetal cardiac activity. The law, which still remains in effect, does contain one exception – for a 'medical emergency.' But there is no definition for that term in the statute. No one really knows what the legislature means by that, and they are afraid of overstepping."
~ Carrie Feibel
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