Well I DO wish that churches that mention the life exception would elaborate a bit on that.
#1...I really can't think of ANY cases where an abortion is somehow going to be "therapeutic" to a mom's health.
The baby, after all, isn't a disease and isn't usually "assisting" any disease in process.
People need to understand that many times we're talking about situations where if there was to be an abortion taking place, it's too early for the baby to be a preemie and it's too late than for anything other than a late-term abortion where they deliver the baby -- all but the head -- and then suck the brains out.
Listen if the baby can be delivered all but the head minus harm to the Mom...then the baby can be delivered 100%!!!!!!!
#2 There's really NOT very many circumstances where an abortion is medically necessary. There is ONE case for sure: Ectopic pregnancies.
Preborns cannot survive an ectopic pregnancy. The death rate in these cases is at least one per pregnancy -- the baby for sure. AND...the baby will also take the mom's life, if not aborted.
That is about the only "for sure" abortion as 'life-defense' that I know of...
I don't believe cancer qualifies.
A good (enough) TV movie (ABC) a while back that focused on this was "A Case for Life" -- where the pro-life mom with cancer (played by Valerie Bertinelli) opposed her family's lobbying for her to abort the baby.
Anyway, bottom line, when churches say "life in peril" they should mention real-life situations like ectopic pregnancies ... and not leave it up to the prognostic skills of physicians, many of whom are pro-aborts in mentalityand are looking for reasons to abort....
Actually there are cases of ectopic pregnancies leading to live births, so even that cannot be a hard and fast exception. I’ve read statistics as high as 30% survival rate.