Sometimes a family learns their baby has a fatal diagnosis and will be born with only a short time to live. The decision of what to do next is one that only they can make. Whether they decide to end the pregnancy early or continue it must be left to the family, not politicians.

Numerous health care organizations, representing thousands of clinicians, oppose these bills including the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American College of Nurse-Midwives, and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine.

Physicians who care for families in these situations have told us of how their patients spend this very limited, devastating time with their infant comforting them.