At a time when voters in several states are weighing in on the future of abortion rights, the cases show how government regulation of high-stakes medical decisions can have dire consequences.
Instead of hastening delivery or emptying her uterus, doctors said 'they had to wait until there was no heartbeat,' Barnica's husband told ProPublica.
Barnica spent 40 hours in a hospital bed with her uterus exposed to bacteria. Finally, when doctors said they could no longer detect a fetal heartbeat, they delivered the fetus.
Gov. Ron DeSantis said, 'Any suggestion that Florida law ... prevents a physician from caring for anybody in Florida ... is a lie.'
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