What Alito Doesn’t Understand About Pregnancy - The Atlantic

"…As a physician who specializes in high-risk pregnancies, I have cared for patients with a wide variety of complex medical troubles: metastatic cancer, kidney disease serious enough to require dialysis, heart conditions that make walking down the hallway an exhausting workout. For many of my patients, pregnancy hinders or simply prevents them from getting the right treatment for their chronic underlying illness. For others, pregnancy is what is making them sick, putting their heart or their brain at risk of permanent damage. Recently, I discussed termination with a patient who came to my hospital at 21 weeks' gestation with multiple organs in failure. Her pregnancy was killing her; ending it would save her life…"

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/roe-overturn-high-risk-pregnancy-late-abortion/629921/