When does the life of a woman and putting her at risk enter the calculus? Meaning, right now, forcing women who are poor, and that`s 75 percent of the population, and much higher percentage of those women in Mississippi, who elect abortions before viability, they are put at a tremendously greater risk of medical complications and ending their life.
Justice Sotomayor discusses the risks to women, particularly those who are poor, in states with restrictive abortion laws.
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