Ohio's new abortion law forces doctor to fight to protect her patient's life | CNN

A doctor shares her story after Ohio’s new abortion law forced her to fight to protect her patient’s life.

As soon as Dr. Mae Winchester did an ultrasound on Tara George, she knew her baby was in trouble. During that July ultrasound, Winchester noticed there was no amniotic fluid around the baby. More tests that day and the next morning indicated the baby was in kidney failure and had multiple heart defects. Medical records spell it out in cold scientific terms: the baby had “lethal fetal anomalies.

A spokesperson for Ohio Right to Life, which lobbied for the Ohio anti-abortion law, did respond to CNN’s request for comment about Tara’s situation. “Ohio Right to Life offers our sincerest condolences to the couple,” Elizabeth Whitmarsh, the spokesperson, wrote in an email to CNN. “However, the answer to the child’s suffering is never to purposely kill it.

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