OMG …my anger! I’m a 63 year old woman. 3 miscarriages and one termination due to medical complications during a time when doctors were the experts and in charge. Just me and my Doctors making the decisions.
“Do we engage in law making and political decision making with a default posture of … not wanting women to die? “
Answer: As long as the Extremist GOP continues unchecked the answer is grim.
We can’t even get gun legislation to save our children in school. They have deemed us as expendable.
Kyleigh Thurman should still be here with her child, her preventable death is heartbreaking and I’m enraged by the lack of healthcare provided to pregnant women because of these abortion bans. Here in NC, my sister was hemorrhaging after her missed miscarriage in May 2021- they gave her medication to slow down her bleeding but she continued to bleed for weeks and the miscarriage didn’t fully resolve until July. A couple days ago I wrote and deleted a diatribe to a former “friend” posting about all the murderous mothers wanting to “kill their unborn children.” If my sister had miscarried after the NC abortion ban had been put into affect, she was beyond 12 weeks. My niece was not even 2 yo at the time, she would have had 2 kids under 2 if her pregnancy had been successful. I keep seeing women who are being denied healthcare on a daily basis and I am trying to parlay this into action so I have downloaded ripple!
I had a missed miscarriage in 2006 when we were living in the DC area. I was seeing an OB who had privileges at Sibley Hospital, which I believe is still the hospital with the largest L&D in the area (and not Catholic). I was right at 13 weeks and we found out because the OB sent me for an ultrasound after she couldn’t find a heartbeat. When we walked back into her office she told me that she was sorry, but that there was nothing she could do because she wasn’t “allowed” to treat me at the hospital. It was a Friday afternoon at 4 pm. She handed me a card with the names of an abortion provider and the head of OB at GWU and said if I started bleeding I should go to the hospital. That was the last communication I had with her.
I ended up going to GW (that in itself is also a story) and found out that the ultrasound—which we knew indicated some fetal abnormalities because the tech at the first place had mentioned them—looked to the OB, who was also the head of GW’s Genetics Center, like it could be a molar pregnancy, which is extremely dangerous. If a molar pregnancy is expelled naturally without intervention tissue can become embedded in the uterus and cause cancer. I know someone who ended up having to get chemotherapy after having one. It ended up not being one, thankfully, but it still blows my mind that I had something that looked on ultrasound to be an incredibly dangerous pregnancy complication and the hospital policy prevented my doctor from treating me—and that was with a confirmed miscarriage.
Last year, my SIL had an interstitial ectopic. She lives in Washington state, so it was treated right away with methotrexate and she was closely monitored for 4 days while the embryo dissolved and was expelled. I have another SIL and a sister who live in GA. I fear if they had anything similar the outcomes would not be so simple.
I work in abortion. I am incredibly passionate about it. I am also filled with rage that my in-laws, who will be very adversely affected by any of TFG’s policies if he wins, still refuse to see the lives of their daughters in law and their granddaughters as things that are important to consider when they go vote in their swing state. And I’m having a really hard time containing that rage. I honestly don’t know how I’ll talk to them the next time I have to.
This is heartbreaking. And, she was aware of all of it as it happened. This is unconscionable and lawmakers and politicians will blame anyone except themselves.
Such unnecessary harm they have created with their barbaric beliefs. Conservatives clearly don't care if women die during pregnancy complications or birth.
OMG …my anger! I’m a 63 year old woman. 3 miscarriages and one termination due to medical complications during a time when doctors were the experts and in charge. Just me and my Doctors making the decisions.
“Do we engage in law making and political decision making with a default posture of … not wanting women to die? “
Answer: As long as the Extremist GOP continues unchecked the answer is grim.
We can’t even get gun legislation to save our children in school. They have deemed us as expendable.
Thank you for this Emily!
I’m devastated and enraged. She should still be here! Her son should still have a mother. 😭💔
This is infuriating. The standard of healthcare should not be a states right issue.
Kyleigh Thurman should still be here with her child, her preventable death is heartbreaking and I’m enraged by the lack of healthcare provided to pregnant women because of these abortion bans. Here in NC, my sister was hemorrhaging after her missed miscarriage in May 2021- they gave her medication to slow down her bleeding but she continued to bleed for weeks and the miscarriage didn’t fully resolve until July. A couple days ago I wrote and deleted a diatribe to a former “friend” posting about all the murderous mothers wanting to “kill their unborn children.” If my sister had miscarried after the NC abortion ban had been put into affect, she was beyond 12 weeks. My niece was not even 2 yo at the time, she would have had 2 kids under 2 if her pregnancy had been successful. I keep seeing women who are being denied healthcare on a daily basis and I am trying to parlay this into action so I have downloaded ripple!
I had a missed miscarriage in 2006 when we were living in the DC area. I was seeing an OB who had privileges at Sibley Hospital, which I believe is still the hospital with the largest L&D in the area (and not Catholic). I was right at 13 weeks and we found out because the OB sent me for an ultrasound after she couldn’t find a heartbeat. When we walked back into her office she told me that she was sorry, but that there was nothing she could do because she wasn’t “allowed” to treat me at the hospital. It was a Friday afternoon at 4 pm. She handed me a card with the names of an abortion provider and the head of OB at GWU and said if I started bleeding I should go to the hospital. That was the last communication I had with her.
I ended up going to GW (that in itself is also a story) and found out that the ultrasound—which we knew indicated some fetal abnormalities because the tech at the first place had mentioned them—looked to the OB, who was also the head of GW’s Genetics Center, like it could be a molar pregnancy, which is extremely dangerous. If a molar pregnancy is expelled naturally without intervention tissue can become embedded in the uterus and cause cancer. I know someone who ended up having to get chemotherapy after having one. It ended up not being one, thankfully, but it still blows my mind that I had something that looked on ultrasound to be an incredibly dangerous pregnancy complication and the hospital policy prevented my doctor from treating me—and that was with a confirmed miscarriage.
Last year, my SIL had an interstitial ectopic. She lives in Washington state, so it was treated right away with methotrexate and she was closely monitored for 4 days while the embryo dissolved and was expelled. I have another SIL and a sister who live in GA. I fear if they had anything similar the outcomes would not be so simple.
I work in abortion. I am incredibly passionate about it. I am also filled with rage that my in-laws, who will be very adversely affected by any of TFG’s policies if he wins, still refuse to see the lives of their daughters in law and their granddaughters as things that are important to consider when they go vote in their swing state. And I’m having a really hard time containing that rage. I honestly don’t know how I’ll talk to them the next time I have to.
This is so, so heartbreaking and it makes me so mad. 😭
This is heartbreaking. And, she was aware of all of it as it happened. This is unconscionable and lawmakers and politicians will blame anyone except themselves.
Such unnecessary harm they have created with their barbaric beliefs. Conservatives clearly don't care if women die during pregnancy complications or birth.