(Wall Street Journal) – Medical authorities are reclassifying life-saving procedures to make a political statement.

The intent when managing PPROM is to balance the needs of mother and baby, and the best-case scenario is to preserve both their lives. The death of a fetus from labor and delivery during management for PPROM is a tragic secondary effect of treatment. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this isn’t an abortion, which the CDC defines as an intervention with the “intention to terminate a suspected or known ongoing intrauterine pregnancy and that does not result in a live birth.”

Reclassifying induction of labor—or, rarely, surgical resolution for PPROM—as abortion care seems to threaten women’s prenatal care nationwide. No abortion legislation in any state restricts emergency procedures to protect the life or health of the mother. (Read More)