Who's making anything up? These are actual well-known cases. It doesn't matter if it happens in other countries, too. The end result is still the same. Women are being held hostage for their uterus' by men who should have no say, and sometimes having disastrous results for the women.
A woman shouldn't be forced to carry a brain-dead, no chance of survival fetus in her womb because of some repressed, patriarchial law that doesn't take her health into consideration. If all lives really mattered then the lives of mothers should matter too.