Many doctors say the law isn't clear and with such steep penalties, Humphrey says it's creating a chilling effect.
Humphrey says an exemption to protect a pregnant person's life makes sense on the surface, but that it means the state has ascribed her and her colleagues a superhuman ability to predict outcomes that we don't necessarily have that ability to predict.
The rules list three conditions that could put a pregnant person's life at risk: premature rupture of membranes, ectopic pregnancy and molar pregnancy. The rules say termination of a pregnancy for those conditions is not considered, or reported as, an abortion.
Humphrey says it's just made things more confusing. Here we are with layer upon layer of rules and layer upon layer of government intervention, which is not resulting in better clarity or better care, Humphrey says.
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