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Abortion law applies to miscarriages. That won't stand
My first pregnancy, with identical twins, was not viable.
I learned at 10 weeks that I would eventually miscarry. In fact, my doctor told me, my body was starting the process already.
At that time, in 2014, I was driving an hour each way to work. We all decided it was much safer to end a very wanted pregnancy predictably, at home, so there was no risk of me hemorrhaging at work, or even worse, on the road.
I was prescribed misoprostol to begin the process.
Yet under the new (old) law of the state, this option is no longer available.
In two weeks, the Arizona Supreme Court has ruled, an 1864 near-total ban will be the law of this state.
And it plainly reads: “A person who provides, supplies or administers to a pregnant........
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