{"id":124878,"date":"2026-02-06T06:43:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T06:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/124878\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T06:43:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T06:43:23","slug":"opinion-who-decides-when-a-pregnancy-is-life-threatening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/124878\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Who Decides When a Pregnancy Is Life-Threatening?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">I think one of the things that has been most notable about the way the abortion debate has played out since Dobbs has been the focus on difficult pregnancies, pregnancies where the woman\u2019s health is threatened in some way, where there\u2019s an issue with the pregnancy, where there\u2019s a potential miscarriage, and so on. You talked about essentially the idea that there isn\u2019t really any other circumstance where a pregnancy should be treated as life-threatening to the mother, and aborted. That is a very, very unpopular position. Is there any room for effectively saying, look, if we are going to restrict abortion, we need to recognize that there has to be a certain kind of latitude for doctors in these circumstances? Well, first of all, it\u2019s important to note that the exceptions, the rare cases for life-threatening emergencies, that they\u2019re coded that way anyways, or rape or incest are less than 3 percent, maybe even less than 1 percent. So I think that\u2019s also just important ground to set that this has always been used in the political context, and the media context, as this is why we need abortion. And then you get a million abortions a year \u2014\u2014 Absolutely, absolutely. I\u2019m just curious. Can the pro-life movement basically say, look, in those situations, we don\u2019t know exactly which abortions count as saving the life of the mother or not, but we are willing to accept that doctors are going to make decisions that we\u2019re not going to second-guess. So I think it is in the training of the doctor. When a doctor is committed to both lives and is not secretly, \u201cI want to support abortion liberalization because that\u2019s my agenda that I have,\u201d I think it\u2019s a lot easier for a doctor to operate. And it is very easy to politicize these cases. And that\u2019s what has happened again and again and again. They\u2019ve become politicized to say, well, in this case, this woman wasn\u2019t given care because of the pro-life law, but you start to investigate \u2014 and we do this all the time at Life Action News, we work with medical professionals who provide their expert opinion. We can care for both. There\u2019s ways to care for both. That really, I think, hasn\u2019t really reached enough people that there\u2019s \u2014\u2014 But in the meantime, you have laws and you have hospitals that have not been trained in these practices or doctors who disagree with those arguments or who are in the position of basically saying, \u201cWe\u2019re in states that ban abortion. There are a life of the mother exceptions. We\u2019re not sure what those cover.\u201d And then that yields stories of medical difficulty that I think some of them, some of them are blown out of proportion, but some of them are legitimate. And it seems like your argument would be in those circumstances, the hospitals are basically just doing the right thing by waiting. But that, again, seems to me \u2014\u2014 But what I would also say is there\u2019s no investigative energy behind all of the cases where abortions may have been performed and there were also bad outcomes for mom and baby. Certainly for the baby. The baby\u2019s dead. There\u2019s always the worst outcome for the baby, And there\u2019s no energy behind that investigative reporting. I mean, maternal mortality rates in America are atrocious. They\u2019re atrocious. And that\u2019s not because of pro-life laws. That\u2019s because of our health care system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I think one of the things that has been most notable about the way the abortion debate has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11078,54326,153,54327,9,11,10,11225,44438,4510],"class_list":{"0":"post-124878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-abortion","9":"tag-abortion-drugs","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-lila-rose","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-planned-parenthood","16":"tag-roe-v-wade","17":"tag-us-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}