Abortion restrictions threaten care for pregnant patients, providers say

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Texas OB-GYNs and others who care for pregnant people say that if Roe v. Wade is overturned, even early detection and treatment of potentially life-threatening problems will become more difficult, and sometimes impossible.

from the court, and if that happens, caring for — and even counseling — patients with high-risk pregnancies will become even more complicated, medical providers say.in Texas would go into effect 30 days later that would ban abortion from the moment of fertilization, and it offers no exceptions for rape, incest or conditions in utero that are likely to result in the death of the baby.

For health care providers, navigating last year’s new restrictions has meant constantly evaluating what they need to do as caretakers and considering what they can tell patients without risking costly lawsuits or worse. Thoppil said pharmacists across the state have expressed apprehension to the Texas Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists about providing OB-GYN medication. One Austin pharmacy refused to fill a prescription for the treatment of an ectopic pregnancy — when a fertilized egg grows outside the uterus — due to misunderstanding around Texas’ new anti-abortion laws.

“Given its low cost and ease of use, misoprostol has the potential to improve women’s health worldwide,” a 2009Without medical assistance during a miscarriage, especially later in the pregnancy, the patient faces risks such as deadly hemorrhaging and sepsis. Today, her hospital requires her to involve leadership and staff across departments when deciding whether a complication threatens a pregnant patient’s life.

“I have to wait until my patient comes in with an emergency,” Cheng told The Texas Tribune after the new restrictions went into effect last year. “Wait until the patient is bleeding profusely. Wait until there are signs of infection. Wait until the patient goes into labor, which for some may not ever happen.”

His patient was at high risk of complications for other reasons, he said, but because fetal cardiac activity had been detected, she fell under the current Texas abortion ban. But she gives them as much information as she can because she sees counseling patients about their options as part of her responsibility.

National standards for medical schools require them to offer abortion care training and residency rotations to OB-GYN students. The training is not required to complete a medical degree, said Ogburn, a member of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education that reviews OB-GYN programs’ course requirements.

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