I miscarried in Texas. My doctors put abortion law first https://www.newsweek.com/i-miscarried-texas-doctors-abortion-law-1861677
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Blame the unjust law, not the doctors. Cant expect anyone to be willing to risk a life in jail for you, no matter how right you may be.
Is there anything in the #Texas laws themselves that bans something like a D&C?
It's my observation that cases like these aren't necessarily because "don't treat miscarriages properly" is in the law, but it's because these laws are often vague and the doctors are trying not to brush up against the limits of the law. No doctor wants to go to jail and risk losing their livelihood.
But sooner or later we'll need some courageous doctors to try and treat women in these situations so that at the very least there are clearer legal precedents for these cases.
Quite the opposite. If the baby is dead and/or your life is in significant threat a doctor in an ER is **obligated** to treat and save you. Not treating (intentionally) a patient whose life is at risk would at a minimum result in a loss of license and at most would result in a voluntary manslaughter charge.
She was bleeding out of her who-haa... yea Id say her life was in danger.
@freemo @black_intellect Maybe? I donβt know as much about biology as say, a woman, but I didnβt see an indication that her blood loss would have cost her life.
Certainly possible, I dont know the extent of the blood loss.
But ectopic pregnancies can, and often do lead to death. At this point you have a dead baby and a noticable risk to the mother. Its really hard to justify treating her as not at risk of death.
@freemo @black_intellect Ohβ¦that pregnancy way ectopic?
It sounded like it. Light vaginal bleeding and pain fromt eh area of the uterus is usually indicative of an ectopic pregnancy. The fact that her pain was extreme and her bleeding wasnt described as light is highly suggestive this was not just an ectopic pregnancy but probably a fairly bad (and risky) case... but without being there its hard to say for sure.
Was the mother's life in danger here? It seemed more like she was in excruciating pain.
Its not that they didn't treat her, but that they didn't treat her appropriately.