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Abortion Banned for Women in New High-Risk Insurance Pools
Source: http://www.prch.org
19.07.2010 PRCH board chair Douglas Laube, MD, MEd, exposes the danger in the White House's ban on abortion (except in cases of life endangerment, rape, or incest) for women whose pre-existing health conditions qualify them for new high-risk insurance pools.
Dr. Laube explains: "Many women entering the high risk pools have underlying medical problems, like cancer and diabetes, that make pregnancy risky. They must have abortion available as a backup if their birth control fails, or if a planned pregnancy unexpectedly threatens their health, as happened to me when a kidney transplant patient experienced dangerously high blood pressure in her third month of pregnancy." Read more from his statement against the ban.
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