The strictest abortion law in the US doesn’t allow exceptions for medical emergencies – and efforts to change it face powerful opposition from the right
Right to Life, a Christian anti-abortion group that wrote the current ban, has been accused of waging a campaign of intimidation against lawmakers who he has said are seeking to “weaken” the law. In public testimony and private meetings, Brewer has said women should only be offered terminations if they are facing acute emergencies – such as when they enter an emergency room “bleeding out” – and suggested some complications can “work themselves out” without medical intervention.
In Tennessee, doctors who spoke with the Guardian on the condition of anonymity say anecdotal evidence suggests the state is already seeing an uptick in teenage births and that – since it has been about nine months since the trigger ban took effect – they are anticipating an increased number of babies being born who have life-threatening conditions that will immediately require treatment in neonatal units.
“A fifth-grader … their bodies are not prepared to carry a pregnancy to term. There is irreparable damage that can be done that will render it impossible for her to have children in the future. That is what Right to Life does,” he said in reference to the group that wrote the law. In an interview with the Guardian, Linton denied his stance could lead to care being delayed. Asked about the Right to Life’s insistence that women be forced to carry fetuses with lethal anomalies to term, he compared those fetuses to prisoners on death row, saying that just because they were expected to die did not mean a fellow prisoner could – prematurely – murder them.
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