Withholding care for pregnant women in with Premature Rupture of Membranes (PROM) early intervention could prevent infection and hemorrhage, and death. The Catholic directive bans early intervention. Read more about a TX study where the law instead of directives decide care.
Withholding care can A TX study found 28 women with severe pregnancy complications before fetal viability. Twenty-six were cases in which the patients’ water broke early. Many appeared stable but an infection was brewing. Due to TX law doctors could not intervene until women experienced complications including hemorrhage and infection and possible death.