Because of Texas' abortion ban, doctors could not terminate Elizabeth Weller's failing pregnancy until she developed a severe infection. She eventually brought her "foul" discharge to the hospital to prove that the infection was starting to kill her.
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As her pregnancy failed, Weller experienced horrible pain and nausea, but Texas' abortion ban prohibited the hospital from inducing labor because she was not yet dying. She had to wait at home in agony instead of receiving treatment.
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A hospital ethics panel, working in secret, had to decide when Weller was close enough to death that doctors could induce labor without violating Texas' abortion ban. The hospital refused to terminate so long as a fetal heartbeat remained, even though the pregnancy was doomed.
Abortion bans force women with failing pregnancies to undergo horrific pain and anguish, waiting in agony as they develop an infection severe enough to justify termination. They place life-and-death decisions in the hands of "ethics panels" instead of patients. They are barbaric.
