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Continued from Front health specialist in Arkan-
"There's definitely a domino sas, has a family history of
effect which I think people miscarriages and ecto-
are really starting to wake pic pregnancies. Knowing
up to and see this is how far she's at high risk, she shud-
it could go." ders hearing politicians
If Roe is overturned, as sug- equate treatment for both
gested by a leaked draft with abortion.
opinion, states will set their "Instead of receiving medi-
own abortion laws, and cal care, … I would be
conservative lawmak- treated potentially as a
ers are already passing a murderer,'' Kelly said. She
steady stream of deeply shared her fears with her
restrictive regulations. Okla- husband recently, and he
homa lawmakers, for ex- "immediately offered to
ample, passed legislation get a vasectomy," saying
Thursday banning abortion "it's reversible and keeps
at conception, the strictest you safe," Kelly said.
in the nation. Meanwhile, some states
Although that bill has some still have abortion bans on
exceptions, it signals a di- the books that date back
rection that is deeply worri- to the 1800s. If Roe is over-
some for many doctors. turned, those bans with
"I truly think the people writ- vague definitions of abor-
ing these laws either have Casie Farnsworth wears a birth control costume as she speaks to a crowd of protesters outside tion could snap back into
no concept of the broad Rep. Jackie Walorski's office on Nov. 9, 2017, in Mishawaka, Ind. effect.
implications or do not care Associated Press "Some states don't say what
about how this impacts so abortion is; they just say
many aspects of women's abortion. In Idaho, for ex- In Missouri last year, for ex- nal bleeding. abortion is a crime," said
health care,'' said Dr. Kristyn ample, it was prohibited at ample, there was a failed In 2019, an Ohio Republi- Mary Ziegler, a law profes-
Brandi, a New Jersey OB- school-based health clin- effort to prevent IUDs and can proposed a measure sor at University of Califor-
GYN who provides abortion ics last year under a law emergency contracep- that would have com- nia, Davis. "There's a history
care. banning public funding for tion from being paid for pelled doctors to try trans- of defining abortion more
"In medicine, you are not "abortion related services." by Medicaid. But in Ten- planting ectopic pregnan- broadly to include steps in
considered pregnant until Along with long-acting birth nessee, which just passed cies into the uterus or al- IVF or some forms of con-
this fertilized egg is implant- control devices called IUDs, harsh penalties for provid- lowing insurers to cover the traception."
ed into the uterus — which emergency contraception ing abortion medication, hypothetical procedure, The Supreme Court isn't ex-
happens after fertilization,'' has been been attacked Republican Senate Speak- which is considered medi- pected to issue its final rul-
Brandi said. She said it is by abortion foes who be- er Randy McNally pushed cally impossible. ing until June or July, but
unclear whether doctors lieve life begins when an back on any suggestion After Texas banned abor- some states are already
performing infertility treat- egg is fertilized. that contraception could tion after six weeks, Kerns considering going beyond
ments would be in violation But those pills have no ef- be in the crosshairs. said colleagues there have banning abortion. Law-
of the law if they dispose fect once a pregnancy is "Contraception and abor- told of patients with ec- makers in Louisiana consid-
of extra fertilized eggs. The established, after implan- tion are not the same thing. topic pregnancies being ered a proposal to make it
Oklahoma measure "is not tation in the womb, Brandi One is a responsible way transferred out of state for a homicide — a plan the
based in science and is said. to prevent pregnancy. The treatment, putting their governor said could crimi-
incredibly confusing and "You can take Plan B all you other ends a human life. health at risk. nalize some types of con-
frustrating for medical pro- want when you're preg- It is a flagrant attempt to Physicians may even be- traception and parts of the
fessionals trying to provide nant. It will not do anything change the conversation come hesitant to treat mis- in vitro fertilization process.
evidence based care." to your pregnancy,'' she and it won't work," spokes- carriage, said Brandi, the The legislation stalled, but it
The Roe decision was said. man Adam Kleinheider New Jersey OB-GYN. could signal future tactics.
based on a constitutional Emergency contraceptive said in a statement. Women often miscarry Oklahoma passed a series
right to privacy — and the pills like Plan B and IUDs The governor of Mississippi, alone, early in pregnancy, of strict new anti-abortion
decision leaned on an- may also prevent a fertil- one of 13 states that will with no need for medical measures after seeing
other landmark case eight ized egg from implanting immediately ban abor- assistance. For others, it in- abortions spike as a ban in
years earlier that gave in the womb, but experts tion if Roe is overturned, volves heavy prolonged nearby Texas sent women
married couples the right say the science on that isn't wouldn't say whether he'd bleeding and treatment is to surrounding states. Leg-
to birth control, Griswold v. clear. It is believed they sign a hypothetical birth- exactly the same as abor- islation passed Thursday
Connecticut. mostly work by blocking control ban when asked on tion — the same pills or pro- and set to be signed by the
Reliable birth control is now fertilization. "Meet the Press." Gov. Tate cedure. Doctors in states governor has exceptions
a feature of life for millions Political attempts to block Reeves later clarified on that outlaw abortion would for ectopic pregnancies —
of Americans, but in March access to intrauterine de- Twitter: "I'm not interested in fear repercussions for treat- despite opposition from at
U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn vices and other birth con- banning contraceptives." ing miscarriages, Brandi least one lawmaker — and
of Tennessee recorded a trol "would be consistent But doctors also worry oth- said. Most end safely but contraception, too, but not
video message naming the with the pattern that we're er forms of reproductive infection is a risk, she said. a specific exception for in
Griswold decision as "con- seeing right now,'' said Dr. care, like treating ectopic Plus, Brandi added, it can vitro fertilization.
stitutionally unsound." She's Jennifer Kerns, an associate pregnancies, could be tar- take eight weeks for some- The legislation, which is en-
not proposing restrictions professor at the University geted. These occur when one "once they've diag- forced through civil lawsuits
on birth control but hasn't of California, San Francisco a fertilized egg implants nosed with a miscarriage to similar to the Texas ban,
commented further to clar- who also provides abortion outside the uterus, often in actually pass the pregnan- would "provide strong, ad-
ify what she meant. care. a fallopian tube. They are cy" without intervention. ditional protection of the
Other conservatives have "Many of us are very con- often life-threatening medi- That can be traumatic, life of unborn children in
conflated emergency con- cerned that that's kind of cal emergencies because particularly for women who Oklahoma," Republican
traception, often known as the next up on the chop- the fragile tube can rup- wanted to be pregnant. sponsor Rep. Wendi Stea-
the morning-after pill, with ping block.'' ture, causing massive inter- Roxanne Kelly, a mental rman said in a statement.q