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 and linked states with more restrictions to higher maternal mortality.

That sounds alarming. But Dr. Christina Francis, a board-certified OB-GYN and CEO of AAPLOG, raises a basic question: how do these policies actually cause maternal deaths?

She joins Scott and Marcie to examine 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 complications, including research finding that 83.5% of post-abortion-pill emergency  ...