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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][twitter]https://x.com/propublica/status/1861002515191390314?s=46&t=kf1qYlCXQnKgUhJWEIu2vg[/twitter][/quote]

This states the woman died June ‘23.

Since that time miscarriages at HM are no longer handled in the ER but transferred to the OB HR at HM where they are treated by obgyn doctors and nurses who are performing d&c’s if needed. [/quote]

She was the third woman to die in Texas because they couldn't get an abortion.

[i]"Texas doctors told ProPublica the law has changed the way their colleagues see the procedure; [b]some no longer consider it a first-line treatment, fearing legal repercussions or dissuaded by the extra legwork required to document the miscarriage and get hospital approval to carry out a D&C[/b]. This has occurred, ProPublica found, even in cases like Porsha’s where there isn’t a fetal heartbeat or the circumstances should fall under an exception in the law. Some doctors are transferring those patients to other hospitals, which delays their care, or they’re defaulting to treatments that aren’t the medical standard."

"[b]But the ultrasound record alone was less definitive from a legal perspective[/b], several doctors explained to ProPublica. Since Porsha had not had a prenatal visit, there was no documentation to prove she was 11 weeks along. On paper, this “pregnancy of unknown location” diagnosis could also suggest that she was only a few weeks into a normally developing pregnancy, when cardiac activity wouldn’t be detected. [b]Texas outlaws abortion from the moment of fertilization; a record showing there is no cardiac activity isn’t enough to give physicians cover to intervene, experts said.
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Dr. Gabrielle Taper, who recently worked as an OB-GYN resident in Austin, said that she regularly witnessed delays after ultrasound reports like these. “If it’s a pregnancy of unknown location, if we do something to manage it, is that considered an abortion or not?” she said, adding that this was one of the key problems she encountered. [b]After the abortion ban went into effect, she said, “there was much more hesitation about: When can we intervene, do we have enough evidence to say this is a miscarriage, how long are we going to wait, what will we use to feel definitive?”[/b]"[/i]

"Performing a D&C, though, attracts more attention from colleagues, creating a higher barrier in a state where abortion is illegal, explained Goulding, the OB-GYN in Houston. Staff are familiar with misoprostol because it’s used for labor, and it only requires a doctor and a nurse to administer it. [b]To do a procedure, on the other hand, a doctor would need to find an operating room, an anesthesiologist and a nursing team. “You have to convince everyone that it is legal and won’t put them at risk,” said Goulding. “Many people may be afraid and misinformed and refuse to participate — even if it’s for a miscarriage.”[/b]"
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Omg.  Can you not read or do you just blindly believe all these sensationalized stories? This death has NOTHING to do with the abortion laws. AGAIN.  There has yet to be an article posted here with a death directly caused by abortion laws.  The doctor gave her the abortion pill, to help her body finish expelling all the tissue, because that was the hospital’s protocol for first trimester miscarriages that needed moving along.  In Texas, all forms of abortion are illegal unless medically necessary- including the pill.  This isn’t a matter of denying her an abortion, the doctor failed her in using the wrong method for abortion- but the pill or a D&C have the same legal parameters [/quote]

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