“Pro-Life Doctors Debunk Common Myths On Abortion And Women’s Health”
August 1st, 2022;
Daily Caller;
by Duggan, Laurel;
Two obstetrician-gynecologists (OBGYNs) debunked some of the popular talking points surrounding abortion and maternal health.
---ECTOPIC PREGNANCIES---
The treatment for ectopic pregnancy is not the same as an abortion, Francis told the DCNF. Ectopic pregnancies are treated with laparoscopic surgery or with the medication methotrexate, according to ACOG.
Planned Parenthood used to state that “treating an ectopic pregnancy isn’t the same thing as getting an abortion” and that “the medical procedures for abortion are not the same as the medical procedures for an ectopic pregnancy,” but that language was removed from its website after the Supreme Court overturned Roe.
---TREATING POTENTIALLY LIFE-THREATENING INFECTIONS---
Francis denied that Texas’s abortion law would have prevented or delayed treatment for the women described [in incidents described by the NYT]. She said that, while training at a Catholic hospital with an institutional ban on abortions, she was able to perform pre-viability deliveries for women who showed signs of infection based on her medical judgement and without delays from management.
“If these physicians are holding off until their patients are overwhelmingly septic or are in the ICU, they’re committing medical malpractice,” Francis said. “It is very possible to see signs of a developing infection in a woman before she has full blown sepsis, before she’s in an ICU, and it’s at that point you have to intervene.”
“I have read the Texas law and I did not see any uncertainty as to what would be allowed and what wouldn’t,” she said.
---EQUATING ELECTIVE ABORTION WITH LIFE-SAVING CARE---
Some abortion advocates equate elective abortions with necessary medical procedures that incidentally end a fetal life, obscuring the fact that bans on elective abortions don’t apply to procedures to protect the life of the mother such as pre-viability deliveries which ultimately result in fetal death.
Stark explained that, while it’s sometimes necessary to separate mother and child before the child can survive outside the womb, that procedure is not an elective abortion since the intent is not the end a fetal life.
“The situations where it does come up is if the water breaks early and the mother develops an infection in the uterus, and she has become septic or could become septic, and the only cure for this is to deliver the baby [prematurely]. But I have not encountered any situation where killing the baby before it’s born was necessary,” Stark said.
When this happens, Stark said she delivers the baby, comforts them and allows them to die in the mother’s arms. In contrast, during elective abortions babies are generally dismembered and die before exiting the womb.
“Elective abortions are never medically necessary,” Francis told the DCNF, explaining that pre-viability deliveries are not the same as elective abortions since the intent is not to prevent a live birth.
https://dailycaller.com/2022/08/01/pro-life-doctors-debunk-common-myths-abortion-womens-health/
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August 1st, 2022;
Daily Caller;
by Duggan, Laurel;
Two obstetrician-gynecologists (OBGYNs) debunked some of the popular talking points surrounding abortion and maternal health.
---ECTOPIC PREGNANCIES---
The treatment for ectopic pregnancy is not the same as an abortion, Francis told the DCNF. Ectopic pregnancies are treated with laparoscopic surgery or with the medication methotrexate, according to ACOG.
Planned Parenthood used to state that “treating an ectopic pregnancy isn’t the same thing as getting an abortion” and that “the medical procedures for abortion are not the same as the medical procedures for an ectopic pregnancy,” but that language was removed from its website after the Supreme Court overturned Roe.
---TREATING POTENTIALLY LIFE-THREATENING INFECTIONS---
Francis denied that Texas’s abortion law would have prevented or delayed treatment for the women described [in incidents described by the NYT]. She said that, while training at a Catholic hospital with an institutional ban on abortions, she was able to perform pre-viability deliveries for women who showed signs of infection based on her medical judgement and without delays from management.
“If these physicians are holding off until their patients are overwhelmingly septic or are in the ICU, they’re committing medical malpractice,” Francis said. “It is very possible to see signs of a developing infection in a woman before she has full blown sepsis, before she’s in an ICU, and it’s at that point you have to intervene.”
“I have read the Texas law and I did not see any uncertainty as to what would be allowed and what wouldn’t,” she said.
---EQUATING ELECTIVE ABORTION WITH LIFE-SAVING CARE---
Some abortion advocates equate elective abortions with necessary medical procedures that incidentally end a fetal life, obscuring the fact that bans on elective abortions don’t apply to procedures to protect the life of the mother such as pre-viability deliveries which ultimately result in fetal death.
Stark explained that, while it’s sometimes necessary to separate mother and child before the child can survive outside the womb, that procedure is not an elective abortion since the intent is not the end a fetal life.
“The situations where it does come up is if the water breaks early and the mother develops an infection in the uterus, and she has become septic or could become septic, and the only cure for this is to deliver the baby [prematurely]. But I have not encountered any situation where killing the baby before it’s born was necessary,” Stark said.
When this happens, Stark said she delivers the baby, comforts them and allows them to die in the mother’s arms. In contrast, during elective abortions babies are generally dismembered and die before exiting the womb.
“Elective abortions are never medically necessary,” Francis told the DCNF, explaining that pre-viability deliveries are not the same as elective abortions since the intent is not to prevent a live birth.
https://dailycaller.com/2022/08/01/pro-life-doctors-debunk-common-myths-abortion-womens-health/
#proLife #proLifeLibertarian #nap
“Pro-Life Doctors Debunk Common Myths On Abortion And Women’s Health”
August 1st, 2022;
Daily Caller;
by Duggan, Laurel;
Two obstetrician-gynecologists (OBGYNs) debunked some of the popular talking points surrounding abortion and maternal health.
---ECTOPIC PREGNANCIES---
The treatment for ectopic pregnancy is not the same as an abortion, Francis told the DCNF. Ectopic pregnancies are treated with laparoscopic surgery or with the medication methotrexate, according to ACOG.
Planned Parenthood used to state that “treating an ectopic pregnancy isn’t the same thing as getting an abortion” and that “the medical procedures for abortion are not the same as the medical procedures for an ectopic pregnancy,” but that language was removed from its website after the Supreme Court overturned Roe.
---TREATING POTENTIALLY LIFE-THREATENING INFECTIONS---
Francis denied that Texas’s abortion law would have prevented or delayed treatment for the women described [in incidents described by the NYT]. She said that, while training at a Catholic hospital with an institutional ban on abortions, she was able to perform pre-viability deliveries for women who showed signs of infection based on her medical judgement and without delays from management.
“If these physicians are holding off until their patients are overwhelmingly septic or are in the ICU, they’re committing medical malpractice,” Francis said. “It is very possible to see signs of a developing infection in a woman before she has full blown sepsis, before she’s in an ICU, and it’s at that point you have to intervene.”
“I have read the Texas law and I did not see any uncertainty as to what would be allowed and what wouldn’t,” she said.
---EQUATING ELECTIVE ABORTION WITH LIFE-SAVING CARE---
Some abortion advocates equate elective abortions with necessary medical procedures that incidentally end a fetal life, obscuring the fact that bans on elective abortions don’t apply to procedures to protect the life of the mother such as pre-viability deliveries which ultimately result in fetal death.
Stark explained that, while it’s sometimes necessary to separate mother and child before the child can survive outside the womb, that procedure is not an elective abortion since the intent is not the end a fetal life.
“The situations where it does come up is if the water breaks early and the mother develops an infection in the uterus, and she has become septic or could become septic, and the only cure for this is to deliver the baby [prematurely]. But I have not encountered any situation where killing the baby before it’s born was necessary,” Stark said.
When this happens, Stark said she delivers the baby, comforts them and allows them to die in the mother’s arms. In contrast, during elective abortions babies are generally dismembered and die before exiting the womb.
“Elective abortions are never medically necessary,” Francis told the DCNF, explaining that pre-viability deliveries are not the same as elective abortions since the intent is not to prevent a live birth.
https://dailycaller.com/2022/08/01/pro-life-doctors-debunk-common-myths-abortion-womens-health/
#proLife #proLifeLibertarian #nap
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