US Abortion Ruling: Woman Forced To Remain "Pregnant Until The Ailing Foetus Dies"
In a heartbreaking story, an expecting mother is forced to carry on with her pregnancy despite the child being incompatible with life. Chloe took to Instagram to post about how doctors have refused her the right to abort the child due to overturning of Roe v Wade ruling.
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She posted a picture of her ultrasound and wrote, "I wasn¡¯t going to post about this but it¡¯s so important that people see other perspectives, especially from someone they know."
Chloe continued in the caption: "I am currently 25 weeks pregnant with a baby girl. She is incompatible with life. I found out at 23 weeks that she wasn¡¯t going to make it. I knew then what I wanted to do. I knew i wanted to terminate. My baby is suffering inside of me, having seizures multiple times a day. I feel every single one. I knew I didn¡¯t want her to suffer any longer."
So, she went ahead and let her doctor know of her choice. She wrote, "He said he would schedule an induction for me. Well.. Friday came along and the overturn of roe v wade happened. I thought I would be okay. I thought the law wouldn¡¯t go into effect for a while."
"Sadly, that¡¯s not the case. I now have no choice. My doctor called me today and told me I have to remain pregnant until this baby dies inside of me or dies when she¡¯s born. What kind of sick country do we live in where we force a mom to feel her baby suffer every single day until her baby dies? it¡¯s not fair," Chloe who is a mother of one wrote on her post.
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"I never thought this would happen. Now i¡¯m completely lost and torn and confused. If you¡¯re celebrating the overturn of roe v wade then I hope you never have to go through this. This is not a time to be happy. We should ALL be grieving the loss of women¡¯s rights," she said.?
Another case from Jan 2022
Recently in January of 2022, protests marred Poland after the death of a 37-year-old woman who was refused an abortion, a year since the country introduced one of the most restrictive abortion laws in Europe.
On the streets of Warsaw, protesters laid wreaths and lanterns in memory of Agnieszka T, who died earlier that day. She was pregnant with twins when one of the foetus¡¯ heartbeat stopped and doctors refused to carry out an abortion. In a statement, her family accused the government of having ¡°blood on its hands¡±.
On 23 December the heartbeat of one of the twins stopped and, according to Agnieszka¡¯s family, the doctors refused to remove it, quoting the current abortion legislation. They waited several days until the second foetus also died. A further two days passed before the pregnancy was terminated on 31 December, according to the family.
The family say that the doctors refused to terminate the pregnancy earlier, citing Poland¡¯s abortion legislation. ¡°Her husband begged the doctors to save his wife, even at the cost of the pregnancy,¡± Agnieszka¡¯s twin sister, Wioletta Paciepnik had said.
Her family suspect that she died of sepsis but the cause of death was not identified in a statement released by the hospital.
Roe v Wade overturned by Supreme Court
The Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision on Friday overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that established the constitutional right to abortion in the U.S. in 1973.
For decades, the legal battle over abortion focused on the U.S. Supreme Court and its guiding document, the U.S. Constitution.??
Now, with Roe v. Wade overturned, the legal spotlight has shifted to the states, where abortion supporters and opponents must contend with 50 different constitutions that, in many places, guarantee rights more broadly than their federal counterpart.The legal chaos has already begun.
The court¡¯s controversial but expected ruling gives individual states the power to set their own abortion laws without concern of running afoul of Roe, which had permitted abortions during the first two trimesters of pregnancy.
Almost half the states are expected to outlaw or severely restrict abortion as a result of the Supreme Court¡¯s decision, which is related to a highly restrictive new Mississippi abortion law. The laws will affect tens of millions of people around the country, who may have to cross state lines to seek reproductive health care.
Supporters of abortion rights immediately condemned the ruling, while abortion opponents praised a decision they had long hoped for and worked to ensure. Protesters descended on the Supreme Court on Friday to speak out both for and against a decision that will upend decades of precedent in the U.S.?Roe v Wade is overturned by Supreme Court.
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