Posted on 08/12/2024 7:08:06 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
WASHINGTON (AP) — Bleeding and in pain, Kyleigh Thurman didn’t know her doomed pregnancy could kill her. Emergency room doctors at Ascension Seton Williamson in Texas handed her a pamphlet on miscarriage and told her to “let nature take its course" before discharging her without treatment for her ectopic pregnancy. When the 25-year-old returned three days later, still bleeding, doctors finally agreed to give her an injection intended to end the pregnancy. But it was too late. The fertilized egg growing on Thurman’s fallopian tube would rupture it, destroying part of her reproductive system. That’s according to a complaint Thurman and the Center for Reproductive Rights filed last week asking the government to investigate whether the hospital violated a federal law when staff failed to treat her initially in February 2023. “I was left to flail," Thurman said. “It was nothing short of being misled.” Even as the Biden administration has publicly warned hospitals to treat pregnant patients in emergencies, facilities continue to violate the federal law. More than 100 pregnant women in medical distress who sought help from emergency rooms were turned away or negligently treated since 2022, an Associated Press analysis of federal hospital investigations has found. Two women – one in Florida and one in Texas – were left to miscarry in public restrooms.
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I wouldn’t be surprised about incidents like this going on well before Roe v Wade got overturned.
Bullshit meter registering 85%.
Yes, ectopic pregnancies are often misdiagnosed. It is a common reason for medical malpractice lawsuits and was so long before Dobbs.
I read the article. A patient with a ectopic pregnancy was misdiagnosed and sent out as a miscarriage. Then they claim the doctors were to afraid to treat her because of the ‘law’.
The reporter who wrote this, and the news service that published it, as well as the ‘political nutcases’ who quote it and misuse it are disgusting. Ectopic pregnancy is a emergency. Abortion pills don’t work, and it’s life and death. The fetus will rupture the fallopian tube, and it will kill the mother, and it will never go to term. This isn’t ‘un-necessary abortion’ this is life and death stuff. The problem is the doctors MISSED the DIAGNOSIS, that’s a medical error, not a ‘legal’ or ‘political’ problem.
The ‘free press’ in this society is so warped and controlled they can’t even tell this simple medical story correctly.
It is fodder for weak minded people who see this as a threat.
Of course, we don’t have any people like that who post or read things that type on Free Republic in order to produce a feeling angst.
We would never do that intentionally to people here.
Such a lie.
It is something meant to appeal to emotional hysteria. Not that anyone here ever posts stuff with the full intention of causing an emotional or negative reaction, like a feeling of hopelessness, defeat, etc.
Trump needs to round up women who were coerced into a botched abortion. Also, many of the de-transitioners.
Of course, they will blame malpractice on Trump. No competent doctor would refuse to treat an ectopic pregnancy. And they will lump non-emergencies in with emergencies to hype the number. And yes make no mistake, they will wave the bloody abortion flag until doomsday. Trump needs to be simple, clear and unambiguous about his position which is the correct position constitutionally, including no national abortion ban. Abortion is not now and never should have been federal issue, unless and until the fourteenth amendment is read by the courts to include unborn children as “persons” under the law.
Don’t believe it.
I think ectopic pregnancies that are not near rupturing can be treated chemically. It happened to a family member. The doctor said it was the best way to preserve the tube.
Sounds like Princess Amanda is having dreams about murdering babies again.
There was a trend about twenty years ago of closing metro ER facilities as most of the no-pay patients came through the ER and the hospitals couldn’t afford the costs.
Total B.S.
Yup
Dealing with an ectopic pregnancy problem has NEVER been regarded as an abortion. Its why genuine hospitals and doctors perform the procedure.
I remember the early 1960s and the Thalidomide reports out of England while the US news ate it up!
One American woman had taken Thalidomide while in England and we got lots of pity party news reports about her and her need for an abortion. Everything from pro-abortion articles to pitiful photos of her! She finally got an abortion in Sweden. The reports said the fetus was deformed but no photos or proofs were ever published.
The left .... who could care less if a baby lives, or, dies .... how ironic.
Also ... learn to read MSM Bea Ess ... dozens means 1 or 2, at most.
Not my specialty. The literature says it’s dangerous. Maybe early, very early, and under supervision, it has the potential to preserve fertility/tube.
Doesn’t change that the article is clearly misleading in making it about the ‘law’ and ‘Dobbs’ and not a missed diagnosis.
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