“People with wanted pregnancies will die”

Recorded:
April 4, 2023
Speaker
Susan Yanow
Duration
00:01:42
TRANSCRIPT

Susan Yanow: If a pregnancy starts to develop outside of the uterus, it’s called an ectopic pregnancy. There is no chance of survival. Because a baby can only develop in the womb. Most ectopic pregnancies happen in the [fallopian] tubes, and those tubes are not infinitely elastic. So as the embryo grows, it’s stretching that tube. And ultimately without intervention it will rupture that tube, the pregnant person will have serious internal bleeding and risks death. And ectopic pregnancy until Dobbs was considered treatable in every hospital including in Catholic hospitals where they would take the entire tube, instead of putting in the medicine that would just solve it. Terrible. But they would still treat it. Because the person will die. So even in hospitals that are anti-abortion, they would intervene in a tubal pregnancy, or an ectopic. Now, the hospital attornies are saying you have to wait until you’re sure that it’s about to rupture. So 80% sure? 60% sure? 90% sure? So here’s somebody in agony. And somebody does an ultrasound. And they say, “We’re 50% sure it’s going to rupture in the next two hours.” And the lawyer says, “Hmm, it has to be in the next hour.” How did a lawyer get in there? A lawyer now is telling the doctor, “Keep your hands behind your back until I say it’s OK. So that we mitigate legal risk.” And the person will die. Ultimately, it’ll be like what’s happened in Poland. It will be like what happened in Ireland. People with wanted pregnancies will die. In the hospital with doctors keeping their hands behind their back.

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