ok, i got the two women in the article mixed up.
The first woman had a fetus who was being crushed by her organs and her insurance wouldn't cover it and the hospital required a 1k up front payment to even begin
from the article:
“The doctor had his arms folded and just stared at the pictures,” Vargas says. “He was lost for words.”
What everyone saw above them that day was gruesome and heartbreaking. “The baby’s limbs were bent and broken, and he had facial deformities from being crushed,” Vargas says. Not only were his kidneys not functioning, but this had also prevented his lungs from developing.
Vargas had been told her termination would cost between $4,000 and $12,000, depending on the procedure she and her doctors agreed on. She gets her insurance via her husband’s employer, the federal government, which has a long-standing policy forbidding employees from purchasing any health plan that covers abortion
Then the second woman in the article is told she just has to sit tight and wait for her fetus to die because an abortion would be "murder" (the word her doctor used)
A high-resolution sonogram revealed her son had a vein of Galen malformation, a defect that interferes with drainage from the brain and swells it with fluid — the reason she was carrying so large. She was told her baby would die inside of her or immediately after he was born. “My baby was alive and kicking, and the thought of waiting for him to die in utero was unimaginable,” Audrey says.
She asked her obstetricians when she could terminate. The head of the practice replied, “We call that murder.” Another doctor in the practice was willing to induce, but, Audrey says, warned her “she couldn’t prevent a nurse from running into the OR with life support. The idea of holding a baby as its organs failed — we couldn’t think of anything worse.”
So, in light of having read this article...I can't say I am surprised at where pharmacies are headed...
