Posted on 02/24/2024 5:52:21 AM PST by Morgana
A Texas woman with a potentially life-threatening ectopic pregnancy was denied emergency treatment due to concerns about the state's stringent abortion ban.
Texas has imposed a near-total ban on abortions and, despite the law including exemptions for cases of extreme danger to the mother, doctors have been hesitant to provide care in rare circumstances for fear of government-issued penalties.
Kelsie Norris-De La Cruz, a 25-year-old college senior, was told that her ectopic pregnancy - a situation when the embryo grows outside the uterus - could cause her fallopian tube to rupture, causing major internal bleeding.
Yet she claims physicians at Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital refused to terminate the pregnancy, saying there was some chance the pregnancy was still viable.
She underwent emergency surgery at a different hospital when doctors realized when the ectopic pregnancy began to rupture, saying that if she had waited any longer, she would have been 'in extreme danger of losing her life.'
Ms Norris-De La Cruz started to cramp and bleed early in her pregnancy. When she went to the hospital, doctors measured her hormone levels, performed an ultrasound, and instructed her to return in 48 hours.
It's unclear how or why doctors missed the ectopic pregnancy during that first visit, instead calling it a 'failed early pregnancy'
Ms Norris-De La Cruz felt sick for weeks with severe abdominal pain that made her think she could have appendicitis or a urinary tract infection.
It wasn't until a nurse at her campus health center examined her that she went to the hospital. But doctors ultimately declined to operate and discharged her
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
So this seems to be a case where the life of the mother is in peril from an eptopic pregnancy. This qualifies for a tragic corrective procedure. Why would they refuse treatment for this case when they’re breaking the doors down trying to hack into other healthy pregnancies? They’re trying to make a political point while risking the life of this patient. They doctor or hospital should be decertified as a care provider over this.
I call BS.
So you think the hospital is refusing proper care in order to make a political point. Either that or somebody is lying.
Me too. I doubt this really happened.
EC
Maybe, just MAYBE, the people are LYING about what happened. A story can be refuted a few days later but the initial headline is what shapes public opinion. That is what drives people with an agenda.
You took the words off my keyboard.
An ectopic pregnancy is a life threatening medical emergency and has NVER fallen under the category of *abortion*.
“It’s unclear how or why doctors missed the ectopic pregnancy during that first visit,”
It’s called CYA. Either that, or they were trying to make a point.
I am such a cynic.
https://www.healthgrades.com/physician/dr-jeffery-morgan-xwpn8
If this is the doctor, the reviews aren’t impressive.
Also, this doctor does lots of c-sections.
Yeh, me too.
The Guardian puts out ‘fake news’? Who woulda ever thunk it.
My gut tells me the hospital staff is overwhelmed with illegals and missed the diagnosis because a border crasher had a runny nose. Just my opinion
I do not know anything about this case, but an ectopic pregnancy is often a life threatening emergency and is NOT an abortion. If a law prevents treatment of ectopic pregnancy, that law must be changed IMMEDIATELY, by emergency session of the State legislature if necessary.
Complete and total lie and those who do not know what an ectopic pregnancy is will perpetuate the lie. My former wife had an ectopic so I have some experience with this. If any of these people searched the internet just once they would have the answer but not the answer they want.
Not only that, the family could sue the hospital for wrongful death or something similar. The administrators would avoid a lawsuit and bad press with every fiber of their being.
This is a story that lacks facts. My wife had an ectopic pregnancy that ruptured. She lost more than half of her blood and required immediate emergency surgery to save her life. It is not abortion because there is not a viable path forward for either the mother or the pregnancy.
This is total BS.
Before Roe v Wade, in all 50 states, it was perfectly allowable to operate on a woman with a tubal (ectopic) pregnancy.
Even the far stricter Catholic Church of the 1960’s would allow such a procedure (I know because we discussed this question on a religious retreat in 1967).
My take as a physician and former ER physician is that this case had absolutely nothing to do with abortion laws in the state of Texas. This is a case of mis-diagnosis, with the doctors initially thinking she was having a “missed abortion” in which fetal demise occurred (which can happen for various reasons such as chromosomal malformations for instance.) When this happens a natural miscarriage will generally occur and if it does not then medical treatment or a surgical procedure will need to be done to evacuate the uterus. Patients are generally treated expectantly for 48-72 hours before making the decision for more aggressive intervention. I suspect that a review of the medical record would verify that the staff originally did not diagnose this as an ectopic pregnancy which would have resulted in a semi-emergent surgery. Only after returning did they make the correct diagnosis and Dr. Morgan performed the necessary procedure. Arlington Memorial is a fine medical facility in the DFW Metroplex. I seriously doubt the implication of this article!
FTA:
“The Texas law stipulates that doctors can end a pregnancy if it is ectopic. Doctors said there was a chance the pregnancy could still be viable, though major medical authorities disagree with this”
Somebody screwed up. There is either a fetus in the uterus or there isn’t. There is either a bulge in a fallopian tube or there isn’t. An ultrasound would show this.
No fetus in uterus, no chance of the fetus surviving much longer.
Also, FTA:
“Ms Norris-De La Cruz started to cramp and bleed early in her pregnancy. When she went to the hospital, doctors measured her hormone levels, performed an ultrasound, and instructed her to return in 48 hours.
It’s unclear how or why doctors missed the ectopic pregnancy during that first visit, instead calling it a ‘failed early pregnancy’”
I suppose once in a while an ultrasound fails to show signs of an ectopic pregnancy, perhaps when the fetus isn’t large enough yet to “show.”
But this isn’t the same thing as refusing to perform an abortion.
She was told to return in 48 hours. Did she? How long between the 48 hours and when she went to the campus nurse?
Also:
“Finally, after texting a photo of her troubling sonogram to a friend who was on the way to see her OB/GYN, Ms Norris-De La Cruz was finally able to see a doctor, Jeffery Morgan, who immediately identified it as an ectopic pregnancy. “
I’m thinking either the first doctors screwed up or the woman was warned it could be an ectopic pregnancy and the doctors wanted to wait 48 hours to see if the fetus died and started to decompose and her tube was no longer in danger of bursting and she didn’t go in for a follow up ultrasound.
Total set up. Note that these “doctors” are unnamed.
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