According to an op-ed piece in today’s Times, Missouri has proposed making it a felony to end an ectopic pregnancy. Not only will the fetus inevitably die but so will the mother.
“Missouri alone has in recent weeks tried to limit out-of-state travel for abortion, proposed treating the delivery or shipment of abortion pills as drug trafficking and moved to make it a felony to perform an abortion in the event of an ectopic pregnancy”
I always thought that aborting an ectopic pregnancy was not a choice, and fell under the “saving the woman’s life” umbrella.
Of course it is a choice.
They choose to kill women for political gain.
Huh. I guess I can still be surprised on this subject. I at least expected it would be a law that had this as a side effect, and Missouri ignoring that. Not, you know, deliberately targeting ectopic pregnancies.
I have to at least hope this is just their attempt to move the Overton Window. But I very much doubt that is the case.
Well, that will make sure no such mother ever does THAT again!
Popcorn? Seriously?
There should be a reciprocal law: all men presenting symptoms of acute appendicitis or hernia rupture should be left to die.
Fair’s fair.
~VOW
There was some goof a few years ago who proposed that ectopic pregnancies be moved to the uterus. Gee whiz, if that was possible, don’t you think we would already do it?!?!?
Why should only the woman’s life be at risk? It takes two, right? If pregnancy takes out the mother, due to a failure to provide the required medical care, (abortion) then let’s take out the man too!
What? He knew the risk, he shouldn’t have had sex if he wasn’t willing to risk it all. Shouldn’t both parties be equally at risk?
If only… 
Looks like it’s a confusingly and badly written bill, but it wouldn’t make access to abortion more difficult than it already is in Missouri.
“The bill is meant to enforce warnings from the Food and Drug Administration about Mifeprex, a drug that, when taken with the medication misoprostol, can end a pregnancy. The FDA recommends against taking Mifeprex if a person has an ectopic pregnancy or is more than 10 weeks pregnant, according to its website.”
“(Maggie) Olivia (of Pro-Choice Missouri) affirmed that it is dangerous for people with ectopic pregnancies to attempt to induce an abortion using medication.”
“We don’t want pregnant people who have been diagnosed with an ectopic pregnancy to read a headline about this bill and think that it is safe for them to take medication abortion pills at home as treatment for that pregnancy, because that’s not the case,” Olivia said."
Remember people, this is the state who’s governor wanted to have a reporter arrested for “hacking” a state website because he looked at the source html in the browser.
This is the state where a governor who had to resign in disgrace just four years ago is now the leading candidate in the race for the Senate seat opening up next year. (At least as of yesterday. We’ll see if his former wife’s abuse allegations have any effect on the polls.)
Critical thinking skills are definitely NOT in their wheelhouse.
That’s an interesting point, actually. I wonder what sort of traction one could get, drafting a law making pregnancy resulting in death a felony offense, equivalent to murder or at least manslaughter, for the impregnator? After all, he knew the risks…
Maybe – a la the Texas abortion law – third parties should be able to sue the biological father civilly for wrongful death.
I am as opposed to abortion laws as the next guy, but I think you’re misinterpreted this law. From what I can tell, it warns against using some drug cocktail for terminating an ectopic pregnancy (which may be dangerous for all I know).
I think them trying to regulate interstate abortion may actually give the feds an in to write some laws, if only we had a functioning government.
They seem to think the surgeons can reimplant the fetus in the uterus. It doesn’t work that way, but they’re not going to let a minor detail like that stop them, either.
“Jim, I’m a crazy, misinformed, reactionary, misogynist politician, not a doctor!” --State Senator McCoy
Debunked nonsense. This claim is just more abortion industry propaganda
“…applies to those who are distributing these items by mail or delivery service.”
“An ectopic pregnancy is always located outside of the mother’s womb”
“…mifepristone does not terminate an ectopic pregnancy”
“Missouri law defines “abortion” such that treatment of ectopic pregnancies does not count as abortion. Physicians in Missouri can still treat ectopic pregnancies.”
I mean … are you sure ?
Because here’s the bill (3pp PDF)
And here’s the language:
[bolding mine]
Be careful what you wish for. At that point a man could argue that he should have some control over a particular woman’s body. After all, his life is at stake too.