The term is accurate if for no other reasons than:
- Methods utilised during abortions are also utilised in non-abortion treatments particularly where the fetus is nonviable or has already died, including miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, and fetal demise.
See: "In Oklahoma, a woman was told to wait until she's 'crashing' for abortion care"
Statton ... learned she had a type of molar pregnancy, in which some of the tissue is cancerous. ... Her doctor told her she was at risk of hemorrhage and even death, but that she couldn't get treated there. The treatment for a patient in her condition is a dilation and curettage or D&C – an abortion procedure that clears pregnancy tissue from the uterus. Over the course of a week, again and again, she says doctors told her they could not care for her. After a week of being transferred to three different Oklahoma hospitals, Statton says her doctors actually suggested she leave the state and go to a place where an abortion is legal.
- Non-abortion treatments and procedures are increasingly withheld from pregnant women out of concern that they will be interpreted as abortions, as they in fact have been.
There have been several nationally publicized incidents where women experiencing pregnancy complications were turned away at hospitals due to fear that performing an abortion would be ruled as illegal.
- Methods utilised during abortions are also utilised in non-abortion treatments particularly where the fetus is nonviable or has already died, including miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, and fetal demise.
See: "In Oklahoma, a woman was told to wait until she's 'crashing' for abortion care"
Statton ... learned she had a type of molar pregnancy, in which some of the tissue is cancerous. ... Her doctor told her she was at risk of hemorrhage and even death, but that she couldn't get treated there. The treatment for a patient in her condition is a dilation and curettage or D&C – an abortion procedure that clears pregnancy tissue from the uterus. Over the course of a week, again and again, she says doctors told her they could not care for her. After a week of being transferred to three different Oklahoma hospitals, Statton says her doctors actually suggested she leave the state and go to a place where an abortion is legal.
<https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/04/25/1171851...>
- Non-abortion treatments and procedures are increasingly withheld from pregnant women out of concern that they will be interpreted as abortions, as they in fact have been.
See again above, also "Roe is over. Prison sentences are on the way." <https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/abortion-laws-punishin...>
- Medical facilities and doctors are closing and/or leaving states in which strong anti-abortion laws and prosecutions exist.
E.g.,
"Idaho is losing OB-GYNs after strict abortion ban" <https://www.spokanepublicradio.org/regional-news/2024-04-08/...>.
American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC):
There have been several nationally publicized incidents where women experiencing pregnancy complications were turned away at hospitals due to fear that performing an abortion would be ruled as illegal.
<https://www.aamc.org/news/what-doctors-should-know-about-eme...>
"Texas AG threatens to prosecute doctors in emergency abortion" <https://www.reuters.com/legal/texas-judge-allows-woman-get-e...>