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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b][quote=Anonymous]They made my good friend, who had a hysterectomy almost 10 years ago, do a pregnancy test before her recent surgery because she still has her ovaries. Yeah...
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Ectopic pregnancy. Pregnancies in the abdominal cavity, without a uterus, have happened before. They don't lead to viable babies, but they can lead to severe injury or death for the mother, and it's important to know before surgery in case there's a bleed-out. Pregnant women respond differently to anesthesia and hemorrhage.[/quote]

This is so rare as to be asinine as a basis for forcing women to have pregnancy tests. [/quote]

“Forcing woman?” It’s peeing on a stick. The benefits outweigh the risk (and there are no risks here, just benefits)[/quote]
NP. Look, I take the pregnancy test before medical procedures like a good little patient because I understand the doctor/medical facility are worried about liability and I don’t want to be difficult, but you can’t just pretend there’s nothing but upside to these policies. Years of battling infertility have left me in a very fragile state when I’m forced to increase the number of negative pregnancy tests I’ve taken in my life. I’m no longer ttc and don’t even want a baby now (age 50), but taking a pregnancy test is still very emotionally fraught for me. Reminders of my fertility (or lack thereof) when I’m having an unrelated medical procedure are unwelcome.[/quote]

Very sorry for what you went through but this is a matter for therapy. You could instead feel like taking more, unrelated pregnancy tests desensitizes you so you are not so triggered.[/quote]

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