By Erika Werner, MD

I am a high-risk obstetrician. I fight every day to help women have healthy babies. For me, abortions represent failure - a failure of science, medicine, and public health to optimize maternal well-being. Yet, I routinely perform abortions, especially in the second trimester.

Why? Because I am pro-life. For me to not perform dilation and evacuations for my patients would lead to more ICU admissions, more hysterectomies, more transfusions, and ultimately more maternal deaths; more kids without moms. Too often abortion is politicized, and this truth is left out of the discussion.

By Laura Vricella, MD

I sat on the edge of her hospital bed.  Mary had arrived just 48 hours ago, tears streaming, and with agonized screams delivered her 24-week infant son on the ambulance gurney. There was not even time for her to change into a hospital gown. She was in shock that she was no longer pregnant, and the reality of becoming the mother of an extremely premature infant was setting in.