OB-GYNs decry the 'fearmongering' about Georgia's abortion laws: 'The lies are hurting women'

Charlotte Lozier Institute Vice President and Director of Medical Affairs Dr. Ingrid Skop is calling retired the "fearmongering" and "lies" of the media that are hurting women who don’t recognize new termination laws.

A caller portion from ProPublica blamed the deaths of 2 Georgia women, Amber Nicole Thurman and Candi Miller, pursuing chemically induced abortions successful 2022, connected the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the state’s caller termination limits. 

Since the story’s publication, galore members of the Democratic Party, including Vice President Kamala Harris, person been attacking Georgia’s laws by suggesting they prevented the women successful these cases from receiving lifesaving care.

Skop is 1 of aggregate OB-GYNs Fox News spoke to who person criticized what they spot arsenic a misleading communicative being pushed by the media and Democrats.

GEORGIA DOCTORS SPEAK OUT TO CHALLENGE MISINFORMATION ON STATE'S ABORTION LAW, DEATH OF AMBER THURMAN

Vice President Kamala Harris has campaigned against Georgia's termination laws pursuing the ProPublica report. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

"I was not amazed to spot this pro-abortion media effort to constituent the blasted astatine Georgia’s pro-life laws, but, successful fact, Georgia’s laws let doctors to intervene to prevention the beingness of the woman," Skop told Fox News Digital.

She continued, "I deliberation the absorption of the Democratic Party upon abortion arsenic an issue is lone due to the fact that the American radical bash not recognize the laws. Many times, women are wounded by abortions. It is not indispensable for women to unrecorded their champion life. And, of course, it’s the fearmongering and lies that person led america to this spot wherever we are today, wherever radical adjacent deliberation determination would beryllium a crushed to constituent astatine the law."

Skop emphasized that Georgia’s termination laws, arsenic good arsenic those of each different state, are "very, precise clear" that an termination tin beryllium done to prevention the beingness of the mother. Further, she said the laws bash not use to termination procedures specified arsenic dilation and curettage (D&C) if the unborn babe is already dead, arsenic was the lawsuit for Thurman.

"The instrumentality states again that a miscarriage is an exception. It besides states that an ectopic gestation is an exception. So we should ne'er beryllium speechmaking of women not getting miscarriage attraction oregon not getting ectopic pregnancies treated due to the fact that they are intelligibly an objection successful each pro-life state’s laws," Skop said.

Dr. Ingrid Skop discussed the disorder surrounding Georgia's termination laws. (Getty Images | Fox News Digital)

Skop said that it's the distortions of the laws that person done harm to women, not the laws themselves, leaving women similar Miller unsure astir seeking life-saving attraction and doctors unsure astir giving it.

"The lies astir pro-life laws are hurting women. The pro-life laws are not hurting women, but the lies are hurting women. Because successful galore cases, the women bash not understand. And we’ve seen that sometimes adjacent the doctors don’t understand. They’re not speechmaking the law. They’re listening to the pro-abortion media," Skop said.

Dr. Christina Francis, CEO of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG), made akin comments connected "Fox & Friends Saturday."

"We are seeing the nonstop results of spreading lies and misinformation astir these laws. Women are being harmed by that due to the fact that they are delaying successful seeking care. And truthful I deliberation it's truly important, nary substance wherever idiosyncratic stands connected the contented of abortion, we should each privation women to person close accusation truthful that they question attraction instantly if they're experiencing complications from things similar these high-risk termination drugs," Francis said.

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In a connection to Fox News Digital, AAPLOG committee subordinate Dr. Susan Bane expressed outrage implicit Thurman's decease and the media's deficiency of involvement successful decently informing doctors.

Some OB-GYNs person been coming retired against the media's reporting of Georgia's laws. (AP)

"If her attraction was delayed due to the fact that of her physicians' understanding of the law, they were misinformed. This highlights the value of giving aesculapian professionals and the nationalist close accusation astir termination drugs and termination laws," Bane said.

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ProPublica defended their communicative successful a connection to Fox News Digital, saying, "We basal by our reporting. The state’s committee of much than 30 experts concluded that the deaths of Amber Thurman and Candi Miller were preventable, a newsworthy finding. Our ongoing reporting is illuminating the challenges doctors look successful caring for patients with gestation complications successful states with restricted entree to abortion."