Providing abortions until one of their docs is indicted? Must be more to it, like some indication that it won’t be enforced, although I wonder if law enforcement can just disregard the state SC.

I think once you introduce criminal penalties to providers, “life of mom” exceptions become inert. Medical complications rarely come with flashing red lights about being life threatening. Most often that’s a subjective medical determination. Which means no hospital legal team will allow its docs to make that determination except in the most dire circumstances. If even then - lawyers protect their clients, not their clients’ patients.