Patricia Glowa

This bill proposes restrictions on abortion that are dangerous in many ways. First, emergency is not well-defined. In other states where this language is introduced, it has led to doctors fearful of acting before women are literally at death's door, and in some cases women have died as a result. Doctors know that there is no well-defined threshold for a life-threatening condition, but rather a continuum. The longer it takes to act to correct a condition that has increasing risks, the more likely that a bad outcome will occur. Good medical practice dictates acting when the risk develops, not waiting until the risk manifests as medical disaster. This bill would have a chilling effect on good medical practice. Second, threatening a felony penalty for doctors who treat the patient with accepted good medical practice, instead of with caution for this poorly-defined boundary, further enacts a chilling effect on proper medical care. Third, the determination of drastic lethal fetal conditions is not well-defined. Man