St. Louis doctor performed MO's last abortion before ban. Here's her message to patients

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Emily Barker, a fellowship OB-GYN physician at Washington University in St. Louis, said she believes the abortion she performed on Friday would not have constituted a medical emergency and would now be considered illegal under state law.

Emily Barker, a fellowship physician in St. Louis, helped perform what may have been Missouri’s last legal abortion less than an hour before the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade.
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St. Louis doctor performed MO’s last abortion before ban. Here’s her message to patients
“What if she presented to us just a week or two later? Her story would look really, really different,” said Emily Barker, a fellowship physician in St. Louis.
12:55 PM · Jul 1, 2022

https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article262972693.html

Emily Barker, a fellowship physician in St. Louis, was part of a team of doctors that performed an abortion in Missouri less than an hour before the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade and triggered a statewide ban of the procedure.

The patient, who was born with a medical condition that made pregnancy a risk to her health, was originally scheduled to have the abortion on Friday afternoon. Fearing that the Supreme Court decision would come down prior to the procedure, Barker and a team of healthcare providers rearranged the woman’s travel from rural Missouri and scrambled to get her to St. Louis earlier in the day.

As of Friday morning at 9:18 a.m., Missouri now forbids abortion in nearly all circumstances, including in cases of incest and rape, under a 2019 law that went into effect minutes after Roe v. Wade was overturned. While abortions are still allowed in medical emergencies, some critics say the emergency provision is poorly defined and could be interpreted differently by certain doctors.

Barker, a fellowship OB-GYN physician at Washington University in St. Louis, said she believes the abortion she performed on Friday would not have constituted a medical emergency and would now be considered illegal under state law. In a phone interview with The Star, Barker said she was not speaking on behalf of the university.

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1. Damn RW Christian Fascists! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

Thank you Doctor, and others for providing the Health Services women need/needed! Be safe!

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2. There are a lot of conditions that risk the life of the mother such as ectopic and molar pregnancy