While vacationing in Malta, an Issaquah woman was 16 weeks pregnant when she had an incomplete miscarriage, causing heavy bleeding and the possibility of a life-threatening infection.
Andrea Prudente, 38, was on a ‘babymoon’ vacation with her partner Jay Weeldryer when the unthinkable happened. A partial miscarriage caused the premature rupture of her amniotic sac and the separation of the placenta, putting her at risk of sepsis. Because of a fetal heartbeat, life-saving measures could not be taken.
That position resembles U.S. trigger bans on abortion following the recent news of the Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn the federal protection to abortion access guaranteed byThere are 13 states that already have trigger laws banning abortions in some or all cases that could go into effect in the 30 days immediately following the court’s ruling.
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