There literally are Savita Halappanavar cases happening in the US now. Lindsey Tanner at the Associated Press reports:
Even in medical emergencies, doctors are sometimes declining immediate treatment. In the past week, an Ohio abortion clinic received calls from two women with ectopic pregnancies — when an embryo grows outside the uterus and can’t be saved — who said their doctors wouldn’t treat them. Ectopic pregnancies often become life-threatening emergencies and abortion clinics aren’t set up to treat them.
In an ectopic pregnancy the fetus is doomed no matter what, so deciding to wait until the woman is hemorrhaging is futile as well as murderous.
… Read the restDr. Jessian Munoz, an OBGYN in San Antonio, Texas, who treats high-risk pregnancies, said medical