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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maternal Health Conditions
For people with certain severe medical problems, the biological stress of pregnancy can be dangerous or deadly.

These situations could include a severely compromised heart or a new diagnosis of dangerous cancer requiring immediate treatment.

These cases are unusual and recommending a termination is not done lightly. Your doctor should thoroughly assess the risks and benefits of continuing your pregnancy, including your wishes, and work with you to choose a satisfactory treatment plan.

It's important to note that it is possible for some women to receive chemotherapy during pregnancy, at least during the second and third trimester. If you are diagnosed with cancer during pregnancy it is important to work with both an obstetrician who specializes in high-risk pregnancies and an oncologist who is comfortable treating women who are pregnant.

Severe Pre-Eclampsia
Rarely, a woman can develop severe pre-eclampsia before a fetus is viable (can live outside the womb). Because the only known cure for pre-eclampsia is delivery, it may be necessary to end a pregnancy to save a mother's life.13 Continuing a pregnancy with severe pre-eclampsia can lead to seizures, kidney failure, stroke, liver complications, and death.

Selective Reduction
In multiple pregnancies, your doctor may recommend a selective reduction, or terminating one or more of the fetuses. This is intended to decrease risk to the other babies or the mother. For example, if in vitro fertilization is done and seven embryos implant, a woman may choose to reduce this to two or three in order to prevent the likely loss of all the embryos.

Premature Rupture of Membranes
Premature rupture of membranes (PROM) is a condition in which the bag of waters (amniotic sac) breaks before the pregnancy reaches full term.11 There are many reasons why this happens.

If PROM occurs prior to 24 weeks gestation, physicians may recommend a therapeutic termination because the lack of fluid will severely impair the normal development of the baby’s organs. There is also a high risk of infection for the pregnant person. If you become infected, ending your pregnancy may be the only cure.

https://www.verywellfamily.com/reasons-for-therapeutic-termination-2371295#:~:text=It%20is%20only%20recommended%20in,death%20by%20continuing%20the%20pregnancy.

These are reasons doctors generally recommend women terminate their pregnancies for the sake of the health of the mother.

Being morbidly obese, diabetic and not taking your medication aren’t reasons for pregnancy termination.

The most important issue everyone here is avoiding is this:

Attitudes toward termination of pregnancy are a matter of individual conviction and conscience that should be respected.

If a woman does not want to abort her baby, even if she is facing death, or the baby is facing disability and/or death, the mother will not be forced to abort her baby.

You all are 100% all in on upholding the individual conviction of a woman to have an abortion, even if she is healthy and the baby is healthy.

You all respect a woman’s decision to abort her baby at any time. Some women even believe a baby who is born should be allowed to be “aborted.”

"[Third trimester abortions are] done in cases where there may be severe deformities. There may be a fetus that's nonviable. So in this particular example, if a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen," Northam, a pediatric neurosurgeon, told Washington radio station WTOP. "The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that's what the mother and the family desired. And then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother." 
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/01/31/politics/ralph-northam-third-trimester-abortion/index.html

But should a woman choose to continue a high risk pregnancy, nobody is out there fighting for her to keep her baby and both baby and mom receive the best care possible to both live.

This woman’s death and her baby’s death: why aren’t medical professionals and women who are concerned with their deaths bringing attention to Texas women who are geographically isolated and the lack of medical facilities that specialize in maternal care?

Ask the Texas State government to study her case specifically and others like hers. Women deserve good care for their pregnancies. Find a way to try and help Texas women get that care. Women should not have to abort their wanted babies because their hometown is geographically isolated.

Texas is a big, big state. I have lived in South Texas, West Texas, and New Mexico. The challenge of providing pregnant Texas women with high risk pregnancies good medical care during their pregnancy is a big, big issue that will need big, big solutions. But something other than telling pregnant women to either abort their babies or die can be done. I refuse to believe that’s all we as a society can offer our pregnant women and their babies.

Even if women with high risk pregnancies in isolated areas are admitted to their closest hospital that provides the level of maternal care they need to continue their pregnancy safely. No mother should be told she has to abort her baby if there is medical care available to allow her to safely continue her pregnancy.

Texas has a lot of issues with providing medical care to citizens in isolated and geographically remote areas. There are not enough medical doctors to provide care to the huge state and population. Even in larger areas, obtaining medical care, finding a family pcp, is sometimes impossible. Doctors are overwhelmed and it has been made worse by the overwhelming number of immigrants who have come into America. This woman was an immigrant.

If you care about women, offer them more than killing their wanted babies. [/quote]

Sure, but therapeutic abortions should be one of the options available for patient and doctor in life-threatening situations. The state should not be restricting options. It should be making more options available.

Did you know that Texas rejected accepting expanded medicaid benefits?
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/medicaid-expansion-benefits-legislature/

[quote] Texas also has more uninsured residents than any other state—both per capita (18 percent) and by sheer number (more than five million)—and that number will grow in the coming months as pandemic-era policies expire, with hundreds of thousands of Texans losing Medicaid coverage.

There’s a straightforward way to significantly reduce this number of uninsured Texans, with the federal government footing most of the bill, but the state’s Republican leaders have consistently refused it. When the Affordable Care Act became law in 2010, the bill’s authors sought to close the “coverage gap” by introducing a new marketplace for health insurance, for which Americans earning low incomes would be eligible to receive federal subsidies helping them pay for coverage. For those who even then couldn’t afford a marketplace plan, the bill would expand Medicaid—a joint state and federal insurance program.

In 2012 the Supreme Court struck down the ACA provision requiring states to expand their Medicaid programs. Instead states were allowed to opt in. Gradually legislators across the country determined the program was a good deal and enrolled. Today 40 states have committed to adopt Medicaid expansion. But not Texas.[/quote][/quote]

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