Dear Justice Amy Coney Barrett: Pregnancy is NOT risk free.
showed high levels of anxiety among pregnant and postpartum women: 35 percent during pregnancy, 17 percent immediately after childbirth and 20 percent six weeks postpartum.says“People don’t know how dangerous pregnancy and giving birth is,” said Oyer. “While we go into this vast amount of information on informed consent for abortion, no one gets informed consent for having a baby.
The risk of having a baby, even with no medical issues, even being young and healthy, is so much greater than the risk of having an abortion.Why are women warned in lurid detail about the minimal risks of abortion, but not told a word about the tremendous risks of continuing a pregnancy? “You should be getting actual informed consent at a time when you can still end the pregnancy safely,” said Oyer. “Informed consent includes telling patients about the risks, benefits and alternatives. The risk of having a baby, even with no medical issues, even being young and healthy, is so much greater than the risk of having an abortion.”Roe v. Wadeare likely to ban abortion and large swaths of the country in the South and Midwest will not have legal access to abortion.
“Legal abortion has reduced deaths of women from unsafe abortion to almost zero and has had important positive effects on other aspects of maternal and child health,”
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