Also worth noting: many women in this situation are not having their first kid. This policy not only sucks for women (and the people who love them) but risks orphaning a lot of young children. (My water broke at 35 weeks in both pregnancies; I was lucky that babies were far enough along to deliver.)
Ok, I need everybody to read Section III-A of Alito's dissent in the Idaho abortion case. He says - explicitly and specifically - that in cases where the amniotic sac breaks before the 24th week of pregnancy, abortions should be prohibited. HE SPECIFICALLY NOTES THE DANGERS. He points out that...
