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Talia Lavin
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journalist, author of Culture Warlords, sword collector, schmoe. newsletter: buttondown.email/theswordandthesandwich buy my new book!! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/talia-lavin/wild-faith/9780306829192/ contact: talialavinwrites@gmail.com
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that doesn't seem to be the case

She'd taken abortion pills and encountered a rare complication; she had not expelled all of the fetal tissue from her body. She showed up at Piedmont Henry Hospital in need of a routine procedure to clear it from her uterus, called a dilation and curettage, or D&C.
But just that summer, her state had made performing the procedure a felony, with few exceptions. Any doctor who violated the new Georgia law could be prosecuted and face up to a decade in prison.
Thurman waited in pain in a hospital bed, worried about what would happen to her 6-year-old son, as doctors monitored her infection spreading, her blood pressure sinking and her organs beginning to fail.
It took 20 hours for doctors to finally operate.
By then, it was too late.

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I think the problem is twofold: no one wants to be the first defendant in the abortion trial of the century with government anxious to make an example out of you; and, can you trust the entire team to not turn you in? Thinking about that woman who they charged w/abusing a corpse because she had…

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This should be grounds for losing their license, withholding medical care after swearing their medical oaths. It's despicable. Bad enough they allow board-certified OB-GYNs who never learned how to perform abortions, this is so far beyond the pale.

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Talia Lavin
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journalist, author of Culture Warlords, sword collector, schmoe. newsletter: buttondown.email/theswordandthesandwich buy my new book!! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/talia-lavin/wild-faith/9780306829192/ contact: talialavinwrites@gmail.com
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