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The Most Dangerous Anti-Abortion Strategy Yet Is Gaining Steam
Abortion opponents want Americans to believe life-threatening pregnancies don’t exist. My experience proves otherwise.
Americans may have differing opinions on abortion, but there was almost always one point of agreement: If a woman’s life is in danger, there should be no legal barriers to the procedure.
But in the last year, anti-abortion activists have begun claiming that women don’t ever need abortions to save their lives. It’s an outrageous lie, one made even more dangerous by the fact that it’s being depicted as one side of a controversial debate rather than a blatant falsehood.
This week, the conservative publication the Federalist published an article by Georgi Boorman arguing that women should carry ectopic pregnancies to term, and urging doctors to take a “watchful waiting” approach rather than end the dangerous pregnancy. While Boorman acknowledged that an ectopic pregnancy is life-threatening, she still scolded women who were putting fears of their own health above the well-being of their unborn children and falsely suggested the risk wasn’t all that great. “[I]s that very small chance [of dying] enough to prompt you to suffer through purposely destroying your own…
