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A waiting period. An ultrasound. A requirement that a physician perform the abortion.A new study grouped measures like these under one category: abortion restrictions and linked states with more restrictions to higher maternal mortality.That sounds alarming. But Dr. Christina Francis, a board-certified OB-GYN and CEO of AAPLOG, raises a basic question: how do these policies actually cause maternal deaths?She joins Scott and Marcie to examine what the headline leaves out. How does requiring an ultrasound increase maternal mortality? Why is giving a woman more time before a major decision treated as a health risk? And why is physician involvement being framed as a restriction?The conversation also turns to abortion-pill complications, including research finding that 83.5% of post-abortion-pill emergency room visits were miscoded as miscarriages and 76% of emergency room visits following the abortion pill were coded as severe.Dr. Francis explains why those findings matter, what could happen as physician-only requirements are removed, and the challenges doctors face when they question the dominant abortion narrative within medicine.Watch the full episode of Dear Jane to get the full conversation.--1:15 — When Maternal-Fetal Medicine Chooses a Side3:27 — Do Abortion Restrictions Cause Maternal Deaths?5:08 — Is a Waiting Period Really a Health Risk?6:12 — How Does an Ultrasound Cause Maternal Death?9:15 — What Actually Causes Maternal Death?10:19 — 80% of Maternal Deaths Are Preventable12:49 — When Pregnancy Isn’t the Cause14:23 — Should Non-Physicians Provide Abortions?16:20 — The Reality of a D&E Abortion19:22 — How Safe Is the Abortion Pill?22:00 — When an Abortion Is Coded as a Miscarriage23:05 — The Trauma No One Warns Women About23:50 — What Pro-Life Doctors Risk by Speaking Up24:45 — 93% of OB-GYNs Don’t Perform Abortions25:58 — Who Stands With Pro-Life Doctors?
