Did you read the prominent Washington Post article from a couple weeks ago that detailed the near death of a Florida woman denied an abortion?

She, and coincidentally a friend of hers at almost the same time, suffered from a pregnancy complication in which amniotic fluid drained completely before viability. There was no way the fetus could survive, and there was a chance that her own health would be put in jeopardy. Small but significant fractions of pregnant women who suffer from that condition go on to bleed to death unless they receive a prompt D&C.

This woman's doctor recommended one, but hospital administrators said no. The mother's life was not clearly in danger, so giving her an abortion would probably violate Florida law. The hospital sent her home to wait for a spontaneous miscarriage, and she came within a whisper of bleeding to death.

Her friend with the same condition did much better, but she was also sent home to wait for a miscarriage when a d&c would have been the compassionate and medically appropriate thing to do.

Post reporters approached the sponsors of Florida's upcoming new abortion law and ask them if they would write in an exception for cases like this.

Nope! The sponsors stated that they were not willing to create a loophole that could open up a barn door exception enabling abortion. That's really what they said.

And if women come close to dying or actually die because hospitals are afraid of breaking the law? Oh, well! Such bad luck for those women.

That's the world conservatives want. And they are not the least bit shy about saying so.