An American tourist, Andrea Prudente, was refused an abortion by hospital authorities on the island state of Malta, which has one of Europe’s strictest abortion laws. Her waters had broken prematurely in the 16th week of her pregnancy.
Her partner, Jay Weeldreyer said that hospital authorities refused to intervene while the foetus still had a heartbeat, despite the danger that infection could set in.
“I cannot understand: there is only one person who can walk out of this hospital alive, and it is my partner. Why are they putting my lost daughter, who has no hope of being saved, above my partner? There is no miracle that’s going to happen. We keep being told the baby will not survive,” he said. “The daily monitoring of the heartbeat has made us face the retraumatisation of losing our daughter, repeatedly.” (The Irish Times)
Fortunately, her travel insurance company had this tortured woman airlifted into Spain, where abortions are legal.
Unnecessary miscarriage harm and death will increase exponentially in Red states when Roe is gone. This preventable injury and death will disproportionately fall on African Americans and other oppressed minorities, but will not spare less marginalized women. Unless Warren Buffet decides to subsidize medical evacuations, that won’t be an option women trapped behind an abortion ban in some Red state.