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
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No law prohibits treatment of an ectopic pregnancy. If that were the case, thousands of women would die yearly and we would hear about it.
(Assuming it is true, and I have my doubts) why make it public, why not perform the procedure needed? We have privacy laws concerning a person’s medical records so who would even know if they did perform the procedure?
By making it public they are making a political statement.
Interestingly, and horribly, the pregnancy crisis center in Worcester is being sued by someone who says she wasn’t treated for an ectopic pregnancy...looks like this is their MO.
They found 1 woman who MIGHT have a serious condition brought on by lregnancy complications, and want to use that 1 example to make it possible for millions of women to avort their unborn babies.
That is like stating that “someone died in a car accident, therefore cars need to be banned”. Only in the case of pregnancy, they are trying to say “a woman MIGHT die, therefore women should be able to terminate a life growing within them whenever they like, just incase they are one of the 0.0000001% who could die during pregnancy”
This is dangerous and not the time to play politics. My daughter had ectopic that ruptured and almost lost her life. Lost one of her fallopion tubes reducing the chance of future pregnancies. Needless to say, she is devastated. The procedure to end ectopic is not abortion. The medical definition of abortion is “the expulsion of a fetus from the uterus before it is able to survive independently.” An ectopic pregnancy never makes it to the uterus. Usually implants in tubes but occasionally bowels etc.
Not buying this crap for a second. They are liars.
Where are the misinformation police for articles like this?
This patient was treated exactly correctly by the first hospital. They checked hormone (hcg) levels and did an ultrasound. They didn’t miss the ectopic. A return in 48 hours is standard care when the baby is small and hcg is low as there is minimal risk of rupture. Often the baby will not survive and hcg levels will not be rising. Surgery would not be necessary in those cases.
The patient appears not to have followed up at the same facility in the recommended 48 hours. I of course have not read the entire article, but I see no mention of how long she delayed her own care before going to a different hospital.
Propaganda, propaganda, propaganda...
My $0.02
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Democrat scum crave the butchered baby.
DailyMail — might as well be the BBC.
Rumor I heard: Liberals need fetus flesh they use to make age resisting injections. That keep them alive. This is why so many on left age well into their 80s. Soros, Nancy P., Biden etc... The baby hormones are keeping them alive but they must have lots of shots and so they need an endless supply of dead babies. Women are encouraged to use abortion as a simple means of Birth Control (as it was in the old Soviet Union). The elderly Liberals must have their life prolonging shots. Rumor? Any truth to this I do not know. Have you heard such things?
Yes, they failed to diagnose the problem.
The reporting is bad or someone is lying. First, they found it but then they didn’t.
It most certainly does seem like she did not rerurn in 48 hours as advised.
The Catholic Church has always allowed treatment of ectopic pregnancy under the principle of double-effect: the mother is treated for the problem (injured fallopian tube) with the unfortunate side-effect of losing the baby.
If this is a true story, it is simply a case of misdiagnosis.
THe doctors at the first hospital failed to diagnose the etopic pregnancy. It has nothing to do with the abortion law.
What nonsense!
once again review of urinalist logic..
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..with a.. potentially.. life-...
.....near-total ban..
( if its nottotal its not a ban )
...chance the pregnancy was still viable...
It’s unclear how or why doctors missed the ectopic pregnancy during that first visit,
( maybe cuz they wanted something to rally abortionoists around ?)
They’re trying to make a political point while risking the life of this patient. ( hat tip post 2)
Possibly. Or possibly there's nothing wrong with her pregnancy and she just wants a konvenience kill.
Ending an ectopic pregnancy has never been considered an abortion. Pro abortion health care workers at this hospital are making the claim for purely political reasons. In truth ectopic pregnancy is a misnomer. It is not medically considered a pregnancy which requires a zygote attached to the uterine wall.
Years ago, a episode of Dr. G. (the Florida coroner who had a reality show on her cases) featured the death of a college student from an ectopic pregnancy that the hospital failed to diagnose.
Reality is that there are going to be thousands of ectopic pregnancies a year and a handful will not be diagnosed accurately when the woman does go to a doctor. A few more will result in tragedy because the woman doesn’t go to a doctor at all despite clear signs of a problem or follow instructions about the need to follow up within 48 hours to see where things stand. Then there are probably tragedies because there are minimal symptoms and then when they do occur, the rupture follows very quickly.
You are 100% correct. Not only that never has it been argued (till pro aborts did so) that the embryo could be viable. Logic alone would tell one that a fetus cannot exist inside a fallopian tube. Which is the very reason you end up with the life threatening emergency when the growing embryo busts the tube.
They certainly are. I suspect pro abortion health care workers dreamed up this bit of total bollocks.
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