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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree, OP. I had severe HG - severe enough that I was hospitalized at 9 weeks and living on banana bags. This was a wanted pregnancy achieved through very expensive fertility treatments. I lost 15% of my body weight and have had ongoing GI issues and complex PTSD ever since. Knowing what can happen to women with HG that severe - stroke, heart attack, organ failure - I begged for an abortion. My doctor refused because I wasn't dying at that exact moment. I ate two saltines and checked myself out of the hospital. I literally crawled out through the lobby. Vomited nonstop for three days while I waited to get seen at Planned Parenthood. They saved my life. This was at GW in 2012. Not a Catholic hospital. Not 1950. While abortion Roe was still the law of the land. It's women like me who are going to suffer the most under this ruling. Those of us whose pregnancies threaten our lives but aren't yet actively in organ failure. I'm also very concerned for women who, like me, suffer from miscarriage. D&C is often necessary to clear the uterus. As my doctor explained while I wept over the loss of our first pregnancy, the line between miscarriage and not-miscarriage is not as bright as it seems on TV. Miscarriage, to some degree, is a medical judgement. I worry for those women whose doctors will wait too long to make that judgment and who will experience sepsis and other complications as a result. I don't think most Americans understand any of this medicine well enough to truly understand what these laws are going to do to the women who are their neighbors and friends - "good," Christian, pro-life women experiencing very much wanted pregnancies need abortions too. [/quote] Op here - Your situation is hearbreaking and also not rare. If we can’t get the medical care we need at GW hospital, what happened to that woman like you in TX?[/quote]
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