What Should Have Been Done?
By Kandase
@Kandae11 (57233)
July 19, 2022 10:24am CST
A physician faced a real dilemma when his patient who was having a miscarriage developed a life threatening womb infection.
When something like that occurs the usual procedure is to abort the fetus immediately. However the fetus still had a heartbeat so that procedure would have been illegal under Texas law.
Here is an excerpt from the AP news report which l linked in my previous post.
According to the doctor: " We watched her get sicker and sicker until the fetal heartbeat stopped and we could intervene." He continued -" The patient developed complications, required surgery , lost multiple liters of blood and had to be put on a breathing machine - all because we were essentially 24 hours behind."
I think the patient was lucky to have had the services of a skilled physician or she could have died along with the fetus - others may not be so lucky.
What do you think?
Pixabay image.
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15 responses
@snowy22315 (208746)
• United States
19 Jul 22
Look for more and more of this unfortunate news showing up.
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@Beestring (15373)
• Hong Kong
19 Jul 22
The Texas Law does not provide any exceptions? I'm puzzled... In Hong Kong, my understanding is termination of pregnancy is legal if the mother's life or health is at risk, or if the fetus has abnormalities that would result in serious handicaps.
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@Dreamerby (10111)
• Calcutta, India
19 Jul 22
Well your country has done the right thing then.
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@CookieMonster46 (13453)
• United States
19 Jul 22
I think it is terrible to be in that situation.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
19 Jul 22
It's an unfortunate situation to be in but the parents may have wanted the fetus to be saved if at all possible too.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
20 Jul 22
@Kandae11 to save the baby you mean? I doubt a fetus can be saved one a miscarriage is progressing unless it's caught really early.
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@Kandae11 (57233)
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20 Jul 22
@MarshaMusselman. I agree - l doubt it is possible.
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@misunderstood_zombie (8765)
• United States
20 Jul 22
Even though I think overturn of Roe vs Wade is a good thing, this was so stupid that they couldn't help her sooner.
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@Kandae11 (57233)
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20 Jul 22
@misunderstood_zombie They said it was life threatening so it had to be bad.
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@misunderstood_zombie (8765)
• United States
20 Jul 22
@Kandae11 I agree the whole thing was so wrong. She may never have a baby again if she had an infection very badly.
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@averygirl72 (38847)
• Philippines
20 Jul 22
Sad news but good thing the patient survived. Sorry for the baby she didn't make it
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@jobelbojel (36791)
• Philippines
21 Jul 22
Glad that she survived - that's what I picked up from the AP News.
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@JESSY3236 (22199)
• United States
19 Jul 22
Yeah she was lucky. I don't like these new laws. Texas needs to secede.
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@aninditasen (18198)
• Raurkela, India
20 Jul 22
Abortion laws should be differently applied to women with pregnancy complications. The law does not apply to the woman you are talking about in the discussion. We cannot risk the life of a person because of a feotus. We can't save a immature feotus but we a living woman.
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@aninditasen (18198)
• Raurkela, India
23 Jul 22
@Kandae11 The doctor should understand that and the medical association should advice the US government.
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@Dreamerby (10111)
• Calcutta, India
19 Jul 22
Yes there are always loopholes in the law. By the way the same law applies in India too. However, the cessation of this law could result in avalanche of abortions(which the Government doesn't want may be).
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@Dreamerby (10111)
• Calcutta, India
19 Jul 22
@Kandae11 Yes. That's one of those reasons.
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