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Anonymous wrote: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...

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.

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

“Forcing woman?” It’s peeing on a stick. The benefits outweigh the risk (and there are no risks here, just benefits)

I'm a lesbian who has slept with 0 men in my life. They try to make me take pregnancy tests, too. While there's no "risk" there's also absolutely no need, and I won't have them charge my insurance or me for something that is completely asinine.

Lesbians get pregnant, too. They also sleep with men, sometimes, and don't admit it to other people. You might not have, but other lesbians have. We don't know whose who, so we need the pregnancy test. Sometimes you can sign a waiver, though.

This is why people hate health care practitioners. It's not my fault people lie. I don't.

Anonymous wrote:If you decline assertively, they accept that.

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Anonymous wrote: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...

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.

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

“Forcing woman?” It’s peeing on a stick. The benefits outweigh the risk (and there are no risks here, just benefits)

I'm a lesbian who has slept with 0 men in my life. They try to make me take pregnancy tests, too. While there's no "risk" there's also absolutely no need, and I won't have them charge my insurance or me for something that is completely asinine.

Lesbians get pregnant, too. They also sleep with men, sometimes, and don't admit it to other people. You might not have, but other lesbians have. We don't know whose who, so we need the pregnancy test. Sometimes you can sign a waiver, though.

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Anonymous wrote: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...

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.

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

“Forcing woman?” It’s peeing on a stick. The benefits outweigh the risk (and there are no risks here, just benefits)

I'm a lesbian who has slept with 0 men in my life. They try to make me take pregnancy tests, too. While there's no "risk" there's also absolutely no need, and I won't have them charge my insurance or me for something that is completely asinine.

They don't believe you, that's the issue. For every woman who insists she couldn't possibly be pregnant, a few will be. It's not worth it to them to take anyone at their word. So, everyone pees on the stick.

I honestly don’t know where people get this. They ask, I answer, they ask me to test, I decline. Nothing about my health care has been changed by this.

I hope everyone who declines and then finds out they were one of the oopsie! 52 yr old grandmothers having yet another kid of their own, doesn't sue when she finds out she was in fact pregnant since that seems to be so terribly common according to some.

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Anonymous wrote: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...

Hon, it doesn’t work like that. You don’t want to take one? Fine, exercise your autonomy. This is your right as a patient.

But do not expect to proceed on with the procedure that you want with sedation or anesthesia. It’s the facility’s right to say nope.

— gives urine HCG tests every day prior to surgery and other procedures.

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.

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

“Forcing woman?” It’s peeing on a stick. The benefits outweigh the risk (and there are no risks here, just benefits)

I'm a lesbian who has slept with 0 men in my life. They try to make me take pregnancy tests, too. While there's no "risk" there's also absolutely no need, and I won't have them charge my insurance or me for something that is completely asinine.

This. They need to listen to us.

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Anonymous wrote: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...

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.

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

“Forcing woman?” It’s peeing on a stick. The benefits outweigh the risk (and there are no risks here, just benefits)

I'm a lesbian who has slept with 0 men in my life. They try to make me take pregnancy tests, too. While there's no "risk" there's also absolutely no need, and I won't have them charge my insurance or me for something that is completely asinine.

Anonymous wrote:My friend is a nurse, it's mandatory for many procedures.

Anonymous wrote:You sound like a pain in the @#$. It's peeing on a stick.

Anonymous wrote:If you decline assertively, they accept that.

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Anonymous wrote: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...

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.

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

“Forcing woman?” It’s peeing on a stick. The benefits outweigh the risk (and there are no risks here, just benefits)

I'm a lesbian who has slept with 0 men in my life. They try to make me take pregnancy tests, too. While there's no "risk" there's also absolutely no need, and I won't have them charge my insurance or me for something that is completely asinine.

They don't believe you, that's the issue. For every woman who insists she couldn't possibly be pregnant, a few will be. It's not worth it to them to take anyone at their word. So, everyone pees on the stick.

I honestly don’t know where people get this. They ask, I answer, they ask me to test, I decline. Nothing about my health care has been changed by this.