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Three critically ill patients in US could have survived with abortions, study shows

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/abortion-critically-ill-patients

"Doctors in states with abortion bans say patients were not told of abortion care as option for fear of legal consequences"

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And there it is again: silence, induced by fear, killing people.

This new study is a searing indictment—not just of abortion bans, but of the culture of criminalization they've created in healthcare. Doctors knew what their patients needed. Abortion would have saved lives. But they stayed quiet, paralyzed—not by medicine, but by law and punishment.

When doctors are afraid to speak the truth, when patients are denied information as a form of protection, we are not in a healthcare system—we are in a surveillance state with a medical front.

This is diabolical imagination in action:

Create laws vague enough to scare providers.

Punish intention, not just action.

Turn a physician’s oath into a liability.

Let patients bleed while everyone stands back, watching the legal risk.

And notice: no matter how dire the situation, abortion was never framed as an option. Not because it wasn’t medically sound, but because it was politically untouchable. That’s how ideology kills—quietly, legally, with a clipboard in hand.

Let’s call it clearly:

Abortion bans are not just about fetuses. They are about control.

They silence doctors. They isolate patients. They turn the most vulnerable moments of someone’s life into a legal standoff.

Three people died in these cases. And they weren’t just failed by policy—they were failed by a system that chose fear over care.

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