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Two women filed federal complaints against Texas hospitals for failing to provide care for the troubled pregnancies endangering their lives.It was several days after Kyleigh Thurman thought she was successfully treated for an ectopic pregnancy at the Ascension Seton Williamson Hospital in Round Rock, Texas.
“I was in a location that I thought, man, if I pass out … I’m not sure anyone’s going to find me or get here. I was just like, don’t die, stay conscious,” she added. Kelsie Norris-De La Cruz, a 25-year-old Arlington native whose fallopian tube nearly ruptured in an ectopic pregnancy. On Aug. 6, she filed a complaint against the hospital who treated her. after 50 years and ruled that women no longer had a federal right to abortion. State legislatures can now enact their own abortion bans and restrictions.
Ectopic pregnancies aren’t viable. For Thurman and Norris-De la Cruz, the fertilized egg attached to their fallopian tubes where it was impossible for them to continue to grow. But that wasn’t what happened to Thurman when she first arrived with her partner at the Ascension Hospital with instructions to ask for the methotrexate injection to treat her ectopic pregnancy.
“There has been irreparable damage done from these abortion bans and not every physician is keeping up with the law. They’ve been told that abortions are banned in the state. It’s not the provider’s fault,” she added. “But it’s never been against the law to care for a patient whose baby has already died,” Binford said. “They’ve criminalized obstetric care in the state.”
It’s never been against the law to care for a patient whose baby has already died. … They’ve criminalized obstetric care in the state.Dennard and Binford said their pregnant patients are terrified of encountering a complication—whether it’s a miscarriage, a fatal fetal anomaly or a risk to their health—that may be difficult or not treatable in the state now.
At Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital, she said she was denied care by two OB-GYNS for an ectopic pregnancy despite an ultrasound showing a six-centimeter mass, as well as complex fluid in her pelvis, and no gestational pregnancy sac in her uterus. Her fallopian tube was at risk of rupturing.
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