Yes, but there will be doctors, the identity of which will be common knowledge in the underground, who would be willing to attest that YOUR pregnancy does indeed risk the life of the mother.
True.
Every pregnancy may potentially kill the mother, the infant, or both. Miscarriages and births that killed both mom and baby were a lot more common in the good old days.
They like to hammer away on that idea in this era: “IF YOU DON’T WANT TO DIE A HORRIBLE DEATH, OR SUFFER UNIMAGINABLY - or have stretch marks - HAVE AN ABORTION!”
Simple fix, State law that makes it a felony to lie about an emergency to provide an illegal abortion. Five years for each abortion ( in State prison), loss of license to practice medicine. Fed law cannot trump that. Go ahead doc, use the Federal ruling to perform illegal abortions, the Feds cannot protect you from the State you practice in.
In a hospital setting, though, there are committees that review physicians’ actions. If the number of therapeutic abortions suddenly increased, the OB/GYN department would have some explaining to do.
“Certifying” that the mother's life is in danger (because of the “mental stress” of carrying the baby to term) IS THE WAY that most abortions were signed off by the murdering physician in the past 50 years.
you mean there are unethical Doctors too? ...../s