Editor's Letter: Introducing Our May/June Issue
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Letters to the Editor: I'm a maternal-fetal doctor. Here's why Idaho's abortion ban is extremely dangerous
To the editor: Arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court on Idaho's abortion ban imply that it is clear when a mother's life is threatened by a pregnancy. As a maternal-fetal medicine specialist, I can tell you that is not always the case. I recall two patients of mine with nonviable fetuses, a rupture of the amniotic membranes and infection of the fluid. Although the patients looked well, I recommended delivery of the fetus to clear the infection. The mothers chose to go home. They developed sepsis...
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Letters to the Editor: I miscarried and was denied care at first. Will women die in antiabortion states?
To the editor: The scenario of a miscarrying patient being denied medical treatment is not hypothetical. It's reality — I know because I lived it. ("How treatment of miscarriages is upending the abortion debate," April 25) In 1989, while living in Florida, I suffered a miscarriage at 14 weeks pregnant. Because my health insurance required that I go to one particular hospital (which did not allow abortions), my obstetrician was not able to give me the care I needed to prevent sepsis. I went home...
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Letters to the Editor: 'All men are created equal' -- abortion foes really mean men
To the editor: "All men are created equal" — it seems that "they" really mean all men. ("Pregnant women are not incubators. Antiabortion states should not deny them emergency care," editorial, April 24) Men would not stand for being denied treatment for prostate cancer or cancer of the genitals because their sperm are considered human beings. They would not stand for being told that they could not have a vasectomy for the same reason. Why are men allowed control over what they do with their...