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US women are being jailed for having miscarriages -BBC 2021 (www.bbc.com)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You can't say a woman is free to seek an abortion if you've taken away their option for safe care, which making doctors liable will do. All your plan will do is drive them to back-alley abortionists or attempt abortion by themselves.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea -2 points 5 months ago

The option would exist in the first half or so of the pregnancy, which is when the vast majority of abortions and miscarriages are performed. So for 95%+ of women, it would be the same as full abortion legalization.

So the only time "back alley" abortions would exist is after the fist 20 weeks and if there's no medical necessity. That's a pretty small edge case.