"People will die": OB-GYNs explain how ectopic pregnancy and other complications threaten lives without abortion care

When Sarah was 24, she was a newly single mother of two small children, including one with significant special health needs. Days before Mother's Day and just a few months after escaping her abusive partner, she doubled over in pain and had to be hospitalized. Within hours, she found out she was at risk of sudden death. 

Sarah was unknowingly near the end of her first trimester, but instead of the embryo developing in her uterus, it was developing at the end of her fallopian tube. She had an ectopic pregnancy and her tube was about to rupture. 

She needed an immediate abortion. Without one, her doctor said the tube would burst and she would bleed to death.