Less than a year after the revocation of Roe v. Wade guaranteeing abortion rights in the United States, Florida resident Deborah Dorbert was denied access to an abortion when her baby is suffering from a fatal fetal disease and has no chance of survival.
She and her husband confided in the American newspaper The Washington Post about this decision as brutal as it is mentally trying. They will spend the few remaining weeks of their pregnancy preparing for the funeral of their baby, whose life expectancy, according to doctors, is between 20 minutes and a few hours.
An unfair decision
” It makes me angry that politicians decide what is good for my health. I would have done anything to have this baby alive “, the young woman entrusted to the journalists of Washington Post.
In Florida, from 1um July 2022 legal deadline for abortion was reduced from 24 to 15 weeks. However, according to information reported by the newspaper, this restriction can be circumvented if ” two physicians certify in writing that, in reasonable medical judgment, the fetus has an abnormality that will be fatal and therefore not viable “. It is difficult to understand how the couple’s doctors chose to apply (or not) this law, regrets the American newspaper, which suggests that this could be due to the fact that ” their child has a disease long believed to be fatal and is now undergoing clinical trials to evaluate a potential treatment. »
Like our colleagues from the SHEin France, the legal term for abortion is 14 weeks, but medical termination of pregnancy (IMG) remains possible if, as for Déborah Dorbert, the fetus is affected by a malformation or an incurable disease.
Cover image: Ian Hutchinson
Source: Madmoizelle
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