Shanae Smith-Cunningham arrived at Memorial Regional Hospital on Dec. 21, 2022 — five days after her water broke, only halfway through her pregnancy. Despite her pleas for treatment and the risks to her health, staff at the Hollywood, Fla., hospital turned her away amid the state’s new abortion restrictions.
The decision to send Smith-Cunningham home put her life in peril, health officials later determined
Yeah but in this case the doctors on the ground are at legal risk for performing an abortion and therefore don’t risk it even if they think it’s necessary, but a federal mandate will protect them. That’s actually kind of the point here.