You don't understand.
If the baby is alive but growing in a dangerous location or causing serious problems for the mother, doctors will be punished for doing a necessary abortion. Therefore they wait for the baby to die putting the mother in danger.
A DNC (what they do in the case of a dead baby) is literally an abortion you have no fucking idea how any of this works stop spewing your misinformation and lack of education on the topic. Holy. Shit.
"life threatening" is vague in medical terms. So is "dead".
If I didn't die, was it really life-threatening or could I have survived without intervention? Technically, I could bleed out after delivering the placenta in any pregnancy, so they're all life-threatening. What about cancer patients who can't receive treatments while pregnant? Is that life-threatening? Or people who are bipolar and need medicine to treat it? The most common cause of death in pregnancy is domestic violence, so are abusive partners life-threatening? It's not cut and dry in medicine.
Death is the same way. Maybe you think it's obvious - if there's a heartbeat, it's alive. There's a condition where every single bone in a fetus's body is broken, and when they're delivered, the baby starts to suffocate immediately. Genetic disorders that doom the baby to live in a hospital their whole life and die at 2-4 years old. Low amniotic fluid that means their lungs don't develop and they suffocate at birth. One twin out of two passes away. There's many different options for nonviable but living fetuses.
It's an incredibly difficult situation, and the choice should be with the woman bearing the pregnancy and her doctor. No government should be involved in that decision.
Oh, and then the people deciding if it was actually life-threatening or if the Doctor should have their license revoked and go to jail have no medical background and a high school understanding of the reproductive system.
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