If a health issue isn't dangerous to one's life, then it's not a risk by definition. It's an ailment, a symptom, or a minor condition, but not a risk.
If you're claiming there's a difference between a health risk and a health-related risk to one's life, then you're going to have to explain the difference. In the medical world, something is only determined to be risky if it somehow poses a risk of immediate or long-term danger to life, or irreversible damage to one's long-term health.
Otherwise, it's not a risk. We have different levels of care for a reason.
Throwing up repeatedly and lacking nutrition is most-definitely a risk to one's life.
Yes, that was my entire point.
Health maintenance and risk management of serious health conditions are separate concepts. Literally everything one does affects health maintenance, not just going through a pregnancy.
Stop with the hysterical bullshit. "Life of the mother" is the well known as the established standard on this topic. Trying to make a case that minor health symptoms that occur in everyday life for everyone makes an abortion a "health risk" issue is goddamned silly.
I'm sorry you don't agree. A health risk is not an immediate risk to one's life, and it is the reason that, before Roe v Wade, various states had anti-abortion laws that had exceptions for the health as well as life of the pregnant woman.
Pregnancy is an immunosuppressed state in which the immune system that works all during infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old age is suppressed and cannot possibly protect the pregnant person well. Various drugs could also sicken the health of or deform the embryo or fetus, so doctors cannot give them to the pregnant person, placing her health still more at risk.
For these reasons, there are huge numbers of health disruptions reported for pregnancy, and some of them can lead to permanent serious illnesses in postnatal life. No one in their right mind can possibly think that a bodily state that can cause a woman's teeth to loosen and hair to fall out is good health. Good grief.
This does not even touch the issue of childbirth as unhealthy for women. Childbirth can cause lifelong bodily injuries, e.g., chipped pelvis, permanent or temporary incontinence, a very large list of horrible problems, and even a caesarian can cause serious health problems, especially if the woman gets pregnant again.
Moreover, deaths from pregnancy and childbirth related causes can be determined up to a year after childbirth, but deaths beyond about 6 weeks are not even figured into the maternal mortality rate.
It is unbelievable to me that anyone imagines that there are no long-term health risks to continuing a pregnancy and giving birth, which is in typical cases a sacrifice that a woman makes to produce a child.
