For pregnant women with cancer, doctors fear abortion bans 'could be a death sentence' abc15
"This ruling is going to impact many different aspects of women's health and women's health care -- but specifically for cancer patients, this could be a death sentence for some of them," Dr. Shikha Jain, an oncologist at the University of Illinois Cancer Center, told ABC News.
Dr. Banu Symington, an oncologist in southwest Wyoming, said cancer patients who are pregnant can be faced with stark choices about their futures. "Some of my patients have elected, have chosen, to postpone chemo so they can give birth to the child. But that choice may soon be taken away from women," Symington said.
"What is defined as a 'medical emergency'? This is what physicians are having to grapple with across the country, especially in states that are outlawing abortion," said Jain, the Illinois oncologist."Because if, for example, a woman comes in and she has a new lymphoma diagnosis and she needs to start chemotherapy, it's not a medical emergency in the sense that she's not going to die in the next hour or five hours or a day, if you don't start chemotherapy.
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