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Swordsmyth
Ohio law allows abortion under the circumstances.
But the leftist doctor hid the case and sent her out of state to protect the rapist invader.
That would be correct. Ohio allows abortion for "serious health risk."
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/new...cy/7748045001/
Abortions beyond this threshold are legal if the provider determines it's a medical emergency and necessary to prevent the pregnant person's death or "serious risk of the substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function." There are no exceptions for cases of rape and incest or fatal fetal anomalies.
What constitutes a medical emergency is not clear and left to "the physician's reasonable medical judgment."
"We are even now still working out the details and trying to figure out processes, as are many places across the state," said Dr. David Hackney, a maternal fetal medicine specialist and chair of the Ohio chapter of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
State statute does define a "serious risk" as conditions including pre-eclampsia, inevitable abortion and premature rupture of the membranes. Those conditions may also include, but are not limited to, diabetes and multiple sclerosis.
The law explicitly says mental health conditions do not qualify as a "serious risk" that warrants terminating a pregnancy.
A 10 year old pregnant woman is, by definition, in a serious health risk.
Nor are 10-, 11- and 12-year-olds remotely prepared to care for a baby, Wall said. But the risks are physical, as well.
"The placenta preferentially will take nutrition from the mother, who really is a child," said Sherry Thomas, an ob/gyn at Mission Community Hospital in Panorama City, Calif. That means that the developing fetus will leach calcium and other nutrients from a child who should still be growing herself. Likewise, pregnancy puts a major strain on the cardiovascular system, according to Wall. Pregnant women have about 50 percent more blood circulating through their bodies compared with non-pregnant women. [8 Odd Bodily Changes During Pregnancy]
The greatest danger, however, is to the pelvic floor. Girls may start ovulating and menstruating as early as age 9, though the average is around 12 to 13. (Some studies suggest that the average age of first menstruation is dropping, but the data is not conclusive.) Just because a girl can get pregnant, though, doesn't mean she can safely deliver a baby. The pelvis does not fully widen until the late teens, meaning that young girls may not be able to push the baby through the birth canal.
The results are horrific, said Wall and Thomas, who have both worked in Africa treating women in the aftermath of such labors. Girls may labor for days; many die. Their babies often don't survive labor either.
The women and girls who do survive often develop fistulas, which are holes between the vaginal wall and the rectum or bladder. When the baby's head pushes down and gets stuck, it can cut portions of the mother's soft tissue between its skull and her pelvic bones. As a result, the tissue dies, and a hole forms. Feces and urine then leak through the hole and out of the vagina. Women with fistulas are often divorced and shunned. And young girls are at higher risk.
"The younger you are, the more trauma will occur, because the pelvic floor isn't developed enough," Thomas said. In that way, she said, the young Colombian girl was fortunate to have access to a hospital that could provide a caesarean section.
As growth tends to slow in girls once menstruation starts, a 10-year-old capable of getting pregnant is likely to be especially small, with a small pelvis, Wall said. And even if puberty onset is happening earlier (Wall isn't entirely convinced by the current data), pelvises are certainly not maturing any faster, he said. If puberty does occur earlier, that would put young girls at risk for dangerous pregnancies for a longer period of time.
That said, the Ohio legislature should amend the law to say "A serious health risk includes the risk to a mother who's body has not developed to the point of being capable of safely carrying a pregnancy to term." Or something to that effect. The right ran into a PR trap focusing on the veracity of the story. The left is focusing on the rape aspect. But even if a 10 year old girl artificially got pregnant from a 10 year old boy through consensual sex, she'd still face the same risk to her body.
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