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Q & A: What An Abortion Ban Would Mean For Patients Who Need One

Consider This from NPR

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🗓️ 31 May 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

What happens if a medical condition threatens the life of a pregnant patient? What about a fetus with a lethal anomaly? Will treatment for miscarriage change? This episode we're answering those questions and others from listeners about what would happen if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v Wade — with help from NPR health policy correspondent Selena Simmons-Duffin and Dr. Kristyn Brandi, an OB-GYN and family planning doctor who's also the board chair for Physicians for Reproductive Health.

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0:00.0

A few years ago, Erica Parr had an unexpected experience that she will never forget.

0:06.0

I experienced a miscarriage when I was 27 a few months after I made my husband and nobody

0:14.8

expects to lose a pregnancy.

0:16.6

And I consider myself fairly like educated body literate.

0:22.6

Parr is 30 years old now.

0:24.2

She's more than halfway through another pregnancy.

0:26.8

And when she heard about the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that could overturn the

0:30.2

right to an abortion in the US,

0:35.0

Parr's religious beliefs as an orthodox Christian weigh heavily on her feelings about abortion.

0:40.4

But she lives in Tennessee, one of 13 states that would immediately ban abortion at the

0:52.0

Supreme Court overturns Ro.

0:54.5

In many cases, the procedures and medications that women need after a miscarriage are the

0:59.0

same as those used for abortion.

1:01.6

And Parr is thinking a lot about that.

1:03.5

There are actual life and death moments where a matter of hours makes a huge difference

1:08.0

in situations in which legal considerations seem like they shouldn't be at the forefront

1:13.6

of anyone's mind when they're making decisions about their own health care.

1:21.1

After this, the Supreme Court may soon decide that the right to an abortion is no longer

1:25.5

protected by the Constitution.

1:27.9

That potential future raises all kinds of practical questions for Eric Appar and for many

1:33.5

of you.

1:34.7

This episode we have answers from one of our health policy reporters and a practicing

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