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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP - I think this sentence says it all...."Although some women with the same conditions as Yeni—hypertension, diabetes, a history of pulmonary edema, severe obesity—end up safely delivering healthy babies, others become so unwell that a difficult question arises."

So, abortion is the first option for at-risk pregnancies?

What if the woman doesn't WANT an abortion?  At the end of the article is this:
"One of her closest friends, Dolores Favela, said, “She and Andrew were so young, and if given a choice they probably would have thought to themselves, We’ll have so much time together, we can have a child later on.” [b]Leticia wasn’t as sure, recalling something Yeni said in passing after her improvement in the Austin I.C.U.: that if a doctor had to choose between saving her or saving Selene, her daughter should come first. Leticia had responded, half in jest, “And who exactly is going to take care of Selene?” “Well, you, Mami!” Yeni said. “Me?” Leticia teased. “If you leave, you better take Selene with you!” Laughing, the women laid the subject to rest, never to discuss it again.[/b]"

There were other details that you omitted as well.... such as:
Glick was given medication to help with her high blood pressure, though she allegedly didn’t take it regularly. 
After returning home from the hospital, she chose to go to work instead of bed rest.

Both you, OP, and the author of this piece seem to believe that a woman who is having an at-risk pregnancy should abort the fetus instead of any alternative.  
And, another thing to note.... this woman died 2 weeks after Roe v Wade was overturned which was June 24, 2022.  
Texas abotion law did not go into effect until Aug. 25, 2022 - which is after her death.

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You don't do nuance, do you?

A woman who receives all the information about the real threat to her health and the choices she can make about it including terminating a pregnancy, who then decides that she will take the risk and continues -- that is her right to choose. It's not a choice a lot of women would make, but if that is her choice and she dies, well that is very sad but it's not the fault of laws, a government, and other people.

A woman who does NOT receive all the information about ALL the possible ways to address a potentially life-threatening pregnancy and doesn't have the right to choose one of those possible treatments even if she knows about it and then dies -- that is the opposite of freedom. She had no choice in the matter.   Here, let me quote from the article because you seemed to have missed this: [quote]Medical records do not suggest any discussion of the fact that an abortion could have alleviated the additional strain that the pregnancy placed on her heart.[/quote]

This woman lived in Texas where laws restricted abortions after 6 weeks before she became pregnant. Did you miss that part? When she first started having problems with the pregnancy it was already too late for her to get an abortion in Texas. Here, let me re-quote it for you since you bypassed it the first time: [quote]the enactment, in 2021, of a state law known as S.B. 8, [b]which banned the procedure after the sixth week of pregnancy in nearly all cases[/b].[/quote]

Did you miss the part that she sometimes skipped her medication because the effects made her unable to work and she couldn't afford not to work? Or that she couldn't afford the medicine? Here, let me quote it because you obviously skipped over it: [quote]Mueller could not convince Yeni, now ten weeks pregnant, to be hospitalized, but she did her best to warn her patient about the dangers of skipping doses of blood-pressure medication, which Yeni sometimes did because the drugs could make her nauseated or sleepy, inhibiting her ability to do her job.....“I just dropped 500 plus my car payment to get it out of the way so I’m left with 200 that’s not even enough to cover cost and I’m just done I don’t know what to do. They won’t help me unless I get insurance but I can’t get insurance"...... “Unable to get lantus rx bc was $400,” Mueller wrote, of Yeni’s prescription for long-acting insulin.”[/quote]

She "chose" to go to work because she COULD NOT AFFORD NOT TO WORK. Here, you missed this:  [quote]When Yeni returned to Luling, exhausted, her family wondered if she would have been kept in the hospital longer had she been insured. (Some ob-gyns I spoke with also raised this question.) Leticia urged her to quit her job and stay home until Selene was born. But Yeni needed the money. How else would Selene’s needs be covered? [/quote]  WTH, do you not understand poverty? Where is your solution to giving all pregnant women paid sick leave so that if they can't work but can't afford not to work they can stay at home on bedrest on their physcian's advice? Where is your solution for universal health insurance so that patients can stay in the hospital when they need to and can afford their medications?

People like you give your anti-abortion side its horrible reputation. This is why those of us who are adamantly for safe and legal rights to abortion think your side is full of utter hypocrites. You are not "pro-life." You don't give 2 shts about this woman's life, the life of her family the actual day-in, day-out quality of their lives.  All you want to do is wash your hands of the stain of her death and say, not my problem, she chose to be poor, she chose not to take her medicine, she would have chosen to die for the fetus even though she didn't get advised early on about the choices someone in her situation should think about.

Disgusting.[/quote]

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