Inside a Hospital’s Abortion Committee

Sarah Osmundson knows how to talk about abortion. She’s learned over the course of her career as a maternal-fetal medicine doctor that some patients are comfortable with the option, and others would never consider it.
Osmundson is a physician in Tennessee, a state with one of the strictest abortion bans in the country following the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision. The procedure is illegal at any stage of pregnancy, with limited exceptions to protect the life and health of the mother.
But which cases meet those exceptions? The risks and outcomes of pregnancy aren’t easy to predict, especially for the types of patients Osmundson treats. After Dobbs, her hospital-and others around the country-formed what’s informally known as an “abortion committee” to decide if a patient meets the state’s exceptions. In this episode, Osmundson brings us the rare view inside these deliberations.
Further Reading:
“Their States Banned Abortion. Doctors Now Say They Can’t Give Women Potentially Lifesaving Care” by Kavitha Surana
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As a woman, feeling very hopeless & helpless regarding my own body and the most important decisions & choice regarding it, all I seem to be able to do, too, is "HOPE" it all goes back to the OB/GYN and HIS /HER patient. This entire "terror of pregnancy" just felt sleazy? As if it came from out of the dark. Because it did! Like literally, even. Rights for women were changed - one night. No discussion, not even some chatter in the air about "this weirdos radical views" on a woman and any rights she had in the highly vulnerable state and time in her entire lifetime. And certainly, no vote by the people for the people. This is a HUGELY personal topic for any teen boy & girl, the single woman whose status is "complicated," the & wife & husband who were not where they financially (or whatever it might be) ready for this addition to their life barely scraping by. And least any of us fprget the over 60,000 women in 2022 who were sexually violated in one of the most brutal ways imaginable. (Of those over 60,000 raped women who were then told they were pregnant? 38% were also diagnosed with an SDT) Knowing you're entire life is about to change - forever? ...Just BOOM! I am not some conspiracy theorist chick, but I can't help but think about how this must be tied to something else? What that something else could possibly be? I still haven't the foggiest. In fact, we're all left with more questions and answers.

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