A waiting period. An ultrasound. A requirement that a physician perform the abortion.

A new study grouped measures like these under one category: abortion restrictions, then linked states with more restrictions to higher maternal mortality.

That sounds alarming.

Dr. Christina Francis, a board-certified OB-GYN and CEO of AAPLOG, raised a basic question: How do these policies actually cause material deaths?

She joins Scott and Marcie to look more closely at what the headline leaves out. How does requiring an ultrasound increase maternal mortality? Why is giving a woman more time before a major decision treated as a health risk? And why is physician involvement being framed as a restriction?

The conversation also turns to abortion-pill complicatio ...