Women's lives matter.

Opinion 2.01 - Abortion (click here)

American physicians are not going to allow American women and girls to die in back street abortion clinics. American physicians are disgusted with the deaths of other doctors/colleagues at the hand of political extremists. 

The professional associations in the USA matter. The politician that wants to outlaw abortions will be met with strong push back and any law will fail.

June 7, 2016
By Irin Carmon

“Civil disobedience,” is what they called for (click here) Two prominent doctors, Marcia Angell and Michael Greene — both professors at Harvard Medical School; Angell the former editor in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine – were saying doctors should disobey some of the most common abortion restrictions.

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“They should make it clear that they will not perform procedures, such as ultrasound examinations, unless they are medically indicated and desired by their patients,” Angell and Greene wrote in an Op-Ed in USA Today on May 15. “And they should refuse to provide inaccurate information about the consequences of abortion, or to follow any other prepared script in counseling their patients, particularly when it involves treating women like children.”
Doctors, of course, have long been at the center of the abortion debate, but even as that effect has intensified — with bills and laws that specifically target and potentially criminalize them, and the politicized disregard of medical evidence pushed by a few actual antiabortion doctors — not everyone is so willing to jump into the political fray. And for abortion providers who are already dealing with threats of violence and legal intimidation, conscientious objection is probably a tall order....

According to the WHO 30 percent of maternal deaths is due to illegal abortion. History included legal abortions:

...The Supreme Court (click here) did not "invent" legal abortion, much less abortion itself, when it handed down its historic Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. Abortion, both legal and illegal, had long been part of life in America. Indeed, the legal status of abortion has passed through several distinct phases in American history. Generally permitted at the nation's founding and for several decades thereafter, the procedure was made illegal under most circumstances in most states beginning in the mid-1800s. In the 1960s, states began reforming their strict antiabortion laws, so that when the Supreme Court made abortion legal nationwide, legal abortions were already available in 17 states under a range of circumstances beyond those necessary to save a woman's life.... 

According to filed death certificates there have been 17.8 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in the USA in 2009 and 2011.