[wolfman23601]

A friend of mine had a fallopian tube pregnancy. She would have died long before the fetus became viable if she hadn’t terminated. There is a case.

[jagusafr]

Ectopic pregnancies are one of the very few cases where a pregnancy must be terminated to safe the life of the mother. As you note, there is no case in which an ectopic fetus has ever been viable, so it wouldn’t be possible to bring the child to anything approaching viability. Is it murder to terminate a pregnancy which could never be viable? Compare this with rape and incest.

[SoConPubbie]

A friend of mine had a fallopian tube pregnancy. She would have died long before the fetus became viable if she hadn’t terminated. There is a case.

Yes there is, as of today, but doctors are already trying to re-implant embryos that start out in a fallopian tube pregnancy into the uterus.

There are very few situations that can actually be classified as threatening the life of the mother during pregnancy. Rand Paul with his statement that there are thousands of situations is just plain wrong.