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continuing to 2016. This was facilitated in part by all prenatal care in
American Samoa being subsidized by the government beginning in the summer of 2015, which also increased women seeking prenatal care as they previously waited until the third-trimester to seek care. Pregnant women confirmed as having the Zika virus had few options as the only way to get an abortion is if the life of the mother was at risk and the Zika virus did not qualify as such an exception; if women wanted an abortion, their only real option if they could afford it, and most could not, was to fly to Hawaii.
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participate in an abortion procedure if doing so goes against their conscience, and that such refusals are immune to criminal, administrative or disciplinary action. Legal code sections passed in 1986 declared that the only persons who can perform a legal abortion in
American Samoa are licensed American Samoan physicians. As of 1998, legal code sections 46.3902 and 46.3903, which were adopted in 1986, made any attempt to terminate a pregnancy except in the case of saving the physical or mental health of the mother a crime.
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particularly hard, despite efforts to prevent its spread, with 21 pregnant women known to have contracted the virus in a population of 55,000 people. Pregnant women across
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