Same here. When I miscarried my OB/GYN scheduled a D&C a few days after the ultrasound showed no fetal heartbeat. By the time I got there I was bleeding profusely; they carried out the D&C anyways because the bleeding was so profuse.
This story could be helpful in one way: It can highlight the terrible experience that chemical abortion is, and right now most abortions are chemical. The idea of taking medicines that may take weeks and that could be fatal if multiple doses are taken when the first dose fails, in order to give birth to a dead child at home and dispose of that dead child at home is a horrifying prospect.
This family did not choose to kill their child, and their medical treatment has nothing to do with pro-life laws, as this article clearly explains. The media should be forced to issue retractions for whatever lies they have told, and this radio broadcaster should explain that he hadn’t been given any explanations and was wrong to jump to conclusions.
But this brings up the discussion that pro-life laws are intended to help a woman never have to go through this nightmare because she chose it not knowing how hellacious it would be.
Also, this story can actually bring up the reason that D&C for miscarriage is to be avoided if possible: it is dangerous to scrape the uterus because it could damage it.
Another point to be made about the danger of first-trimester D&C abortions is the risk of incompetent cervix which can result in premature later births which can cause a lot of expense and/or the death of wanted children (this isn’t the case for D&C’s done after natural miscarriage/spontaneous abortion because the body knows the child has died and the cervix is not fighting the laminaria to open it up), and of undiagnosed ectopic pregnancy which could be fatal.
First-trimester abortions of any type are also associated with an increased risk of breast cancer - even moreso than a family history of breast cancer, which is CONSIDERED to be the leading risk factor for breast cancer.
People need to know that you can’t conceive a child and expect no consequences. There are always consequences for something so significant. The people who want to protect women by at the very least informing them of consequences are vilified today, but this tragic case and its politicization could be a basis for some real information getting out to the general public which is otherwise being deceived.