“RECENTLY!” Florida Provides Guidelines For Medical Exemptions In 6-Week Abortion Ban

DEBARYLIFE – Several restricted medical exceptions to the state’s six-week abortion ban were unveiled by Florida health officials on Thursday.

The rule effectively shut down access to abortion throughout the South and was released by the state’s Agency for Health Care Administration one day after the prohibition went into force.

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As per the regulation, “molar pregnancy, ectopic pregnancy, and premature rupture of membranes (PPROM) can pose an immediate risk to the health, safety, and well-being of women and unborn children in hospitals and abortion clinics if prompt and appropriate care and treatment is not provided.”

According to the measure, if a doctor tries to induce birth to cure an early rupture of the membranes and the fetus does not survive, it is not regarded as an abortion.

According to this, therapies for trophoblastic tumors—a rare tumor that develops where the placenta joins to the uterus—also do not qualify as abortions.

The agency claimed that the misrepresentation of the abortion law by the media, the Biden Administration, and advocacy groups was putting pregnant women and babies in danger, necessitating the necessity for emergency rulemaking.

Governor Ron DeSantis (R) signed the six-week moratorium into law in Florida last year. The state Supreme Court case involving a different law that forbade abortions beyond 15 weeks of pregnancy had an impact on the execution of that law.

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Thirty days later, the six-week ban went into effect after the court affirmed that rule in early April.

Instances of rape, incest, and human trafficking up to 15 weeks pregnant are exempt from the six-week prohibition. Additionally, if it becomes necessary to save the mother’s life or avoid “a serious risk of substantial and irreversible physical impairment,” doctors are permitted to end a pregnancy.

However, physicians working in areas throughout the nation where abortion is illegal have said that they find it difficult to understand the frequently contradictory exceptions to the legislation.

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Medical professionals claim that state laws about abortion are too ambiguous and do not shield them from liability should they need to perform an abortion.

Consequently, anecdotes of pregnant patients experiencing medical distress being turned away from hospitals or made to wait in a parking lot until their lives are in danger are starting to appear often.

Last week, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a lawsuit challenging Idaho’s nearly complete prohibition on abortions because it was against a federal rule mandating doctors to treat patients for stabilization in an emergency, even if such treatment involves an abortion.