“Almost 200 women with the condition died from 2020 to 2025, compared with about 100 in the previous six years.”
An ectopic pregnancy is never viable. Treating it is not an abortion by any medical definition. Doctors still hesitate because the law is vague and the penalties are prison. So women bleed out in parking lots while hospitals call their lawyers. The people who wrote these bans said this would never happen. The numbers doubled.