Notice how they said “not even if medically necessary.” That means if his wife was pregnant and the fetus become non-viable, meaning that it had stopped developing and would EVENTUALLY die completely inside the woman - it is STILL ILLEGAL in that state to perform an abortion. Though the fetus will eventually rot and cause sepsis, killing the woman, it is still illegal to abort it. And that’s just one example of a medically necessary abortion. There are various medical conditions that can cause various circumstances resulting in the death of the mother.

This is the reason abortion was legalized in Ireland. Because this is actually a serious problem.