obstetrician, jorge cruise said they cannot intervene with a woman's health even if her pregnancy haschance of coming to term. >> the law does not permit us to end pregnancies that are unviable, as long as there's a heart beat. often there's hemorrhage and women die from the shock. >> he and colleagues feel many dress, particularly junior ones are being intimidated into betraying patient confidentiality for fear they could be prosecuted as accessories. >> in the public health system, patients coming in after an abortion, whether self inflected or septic, providers were told they had to report the patients for prosecution. >> but medical legal officer magonia said the doctors' fears are exaggerated. >> the statistics of the doctors in jail because of the crime of abortion is zero. >> reporter: in truly dire circumstances, he says doctors can save a woman's life. he points to the days of a 22-year-old woman whose case drew international attention and skirts the law. known as beatrice she was suffering from lupus syndrome and kidney failure. she was pregnant with a severely deformed fetu

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. >> pregnant inmates receive ultrasounds and other prenatal services from the staff obstetrician at the prison infirmary. >> i go to the doctor every friday. he does the test. i get to hear the baby's heartbeat. i've already had one ultrasound since i've been here and i've only been here for six weeks. >> so i'll see you back in about a week. >> okay. >> okay, good. everything's going fine. >> mincy will soon face a tough decision, deciding who will raise her baby. she says the baby's father is currently a fugitive. so like many other pregnant inmates, she must choose between adoption or finding another state-approved relative or friend to raise the baby. a prison chapel program also finds families to raise some of the babies until their mothers leave prison. >> have you thought about what you're going to do? have you talked to the chaplain? >> yeah, i'm thinking about letting maybe the church keep the baby. that way, i can see him and bond with him, because he's going to be so little, and i'll have like six months left by the time the baby's born, and from what i hear, they're real

. >> reporter: the american college of obstetricians and gynecologists urges pregnant women to receiven its website, flu vaccination is an essential element of prenatal care. no study to date has shown an adverse consequence of flu vaccine in pregnant women, or their offspring. dr. william shatner is a dr. of infectious disease at vanderbilt university. >> not only does the flu shot offer some protection to the pregnant woman, but there's a bonus. you see the pregnant woman can pass some of that prevention in to her newborn baby. >> reporter: since 1984 the cdc has encouraged health care workers to receive a yearly flu vaccine. but a study from this august showed less than three quarters of all health care workers received the vaccine in 2012. that has led health care providers in several states to require workers to be vaccinated. brayton's former employer horizon health care services said in a statement, like our requirements for tb testing and mmr vaccination as a condition of employment mandatory flu immunization protects our patients employees, and communities from getting the pot

>> right now, obstetricians, pediatricians, allergists are all saying, go ahead in moderation.at these foods that are considered allergens. there's no strict data that says you should avoid them completely. >> and how about if you suspect your child is allergic to nuts? or other foods. what do you do? >> see a pediatric allergist. get your child tested. if they are diagnosed with a real food allergy, make sure to have multiple epi pens all over. various locations. make sure people know how to use them. speak to your child's doctor about having other medications like steroids, benadryl, or anti-histamines on you or on that child. it can be scary and to be clear, life-threatening. >> thanks very much. >>> and now, we turn to those very last-minute christmas shoppers, dashing through the mall. some department stores having -- staying open around the clock to meet the rush. and still, big, big sales out there for those who have waited right down to the wire. abc's linzie janis is here with all of the details and the deals. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, lara. the window f

it's not going to be a reassuring thing to that mother who now has maternity coverage and no obstetrician. no local hospital to deliver a child. because, you see, we didn't reform health care. we didn't do anything to liability. we just changed the pocket we pay out of. we've taxed everything we could find to pay for it, and still, as i said, in 2009 and i believe it will be true today, at the end of this process, there will be 24 million people without health insurance. why? because of obamacare. because of the choice or the lack of choice that we gave them. i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from florida. mr. rubio: mr. president, i intend to be here for the next -- a little bit under an hour. i look forward to sharing this time here on the floor with you to discuss some of the issues that are before us, particularly the pending issue before us of nominations and the concern we have about that. i know people back home across the country are kind of watching the news tonight or perhaps over the last few weeks have watched the news about all of