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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“It had been nearly a day since the Surepoint Emergency Center outside of Fort Worth told her that she was miscarrying at nearly 13 weeks and sent her home with a prescription and a set of instructions.

Administer the misoprostol, a drug that helps empty the uterus, and wait, the instructions said. If it doesn’t work, take another dose. There will be a lot of blood, the doctor said, but you only need to worry if it’s scarlet instead of a rusty brown. The woman, who asked not to be named out of concern for her safety, wanted a surgical procedure to clear her uterus, but the doctor told her it wasn’t an option at the facility.

Worried by the amount of blood, the woman and her husband, Ryan Hamilton, returned to Surepoint, their 9-month-old daughter in tow. The trip was the beginning of a 24-hour race to get the woman additional abortion care while she bled until she lost consciousness on her bathroom floor.

The woman labored through the night and returned to the same medical center the next morning, with Hamilton listening to the appointment by phone in the family’s truck with their daughter. The doctor told the woman they wouldn’t prescribe her another dose.

“She told the doctor ‘Get this dead baby out of me,’” Hamilton said, choking up. “And they asked her to leave.”

The family drove nearly an hour to Lake Granbury Medical Center, the hospital where the woman gave birth to their 9-month-old daughter, to get a second opinion. They waited for hours before doctors at the hospital said they didn’t find her case emergent enough to do a surgical abortion, but that they could schedule it for a week or two later.

Doctors repeatedly asked the woman the same questions. Hamilton said it felt like they were stalling.

The medical center did not immediately respond to The News’ request for comment by email and phone on Monday.

The doctors eventually agreed to prescribe one final, stronger dose of misoprostol, Hamilton said. Medical records from the visit The DMN reviewed again confirmed that [b]the fetus did not have a heartbeat.[/b]

The dose was eight pills inserted vaginally over 24 hours. The bleeding intensified and the woman became increasingly weak and pale. She started vomiting and having diarrhea before passing softball-sized blood clots. After days of waiting, Hamilton said, it felt like progress.

[b][i]At 10 a.m. on Sunday, May 19 — two days after beginning her first dose of misoprostol — Hamilton found his wife unconscious in their bathroom, covered in her own blood and feces.”[/i][/b]
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/public-health/2024/06/04/how-a-couple-found-themselves-tangled-in-texas-strict-abortion-laws-after-miscarriage/[/quote]
Interview with this woman’s husband here: 
[twitter]https://x.com/cbsmornings/status/1797974910012215438?s=46&t=kf1qYlCXQnKgUhJWEIu2vg[/twitter][/quote]

This is a tragedy.  That poor family.  I hope the media does its job and covers all of these stories.  Replace the smug complacency of MAGA with facts. [/quote]

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