Woman forced to carry dead fetus in womb for 2 weeks due to Anti-Abortion laws

[RamsayBolton]

Woman says Texas abortion law prevented her from getting timely miscarriage care

A woman in Texas said after finding out she had a miscarriage, her doctor refused to perform the necessary medical procedure, which means she carried her dead fetus for two weeks.

www.wibw.com

An ultrasound at 7 and 1/2 weeks showed all was well. But at an ultrasound two weeks later showed something different.

“She said there is no heartbeat. There is no viable pregnancy,” Stell said.

Stell asked her doctor for a standard treatment: a surgery to remove the fetal remains. She said her doctor refused.

That surgery, commonly known as a D and C, is the same procedure used to abort a living fetus.

“She said, ‘Well, because of the new law that’s passed, you’re going to have to get another ultrasound for me to be able to even do anything for you,’” Stell said.

She said she was overwhelmed emotionally and physically. “The pain would get so severe, it would be hard to walk,” Stell said.

She went to get a second invasive ultrasound at an imaging center, describing it later in a YouTube video: “Someone shoves a wand in my in my sensitive area and tells me, ‘Hey, you lost your baby’ again. I shouldn’t have to go through that twice.”

She added, “It was gut-wrenching, sorry, ‘cause you already know what you’re going to see. It’s just like, seeing it twice, being told that you’re not going to be a mom.”

It was still not enough to get her doctor to give her medical care. Stell had to get yet another ultrasound showing her dead fetus.

She was walking around carrying a dead fetus “and just emotionally carrying it around and just knowing that there’s nothing you could do. It just feels very ... it’s like I can’t grieve or move past it because I’m just walking around carrying it.”

Dr. Lillian Schapiro, who has been an OB-GYN in Atlanta for more than 30 years, said carrying around a dead fetus is also dangerous to the mother.

“She can develop an infection that can make her sterile and never able to have children again,” she said.

Or even worse. “When the baby dies inside, the baby starts to release parts of its tissue that can get into the mother’s blood supply. It can cause organ failure. It can cause death,” Schapiro said.

“Any private citizen can walk into court and say ‘I think Dr. Smith performed an abortion,’” said Stephen Vladeck, a law professor at the University of Texas.

Citizens are incentivized to bring such cases. They can win more than $10,000.

 

[Estarossa]

I said I wasn’t gonna vote anymore but shyt like this is just hard to stomach… these republicans are insane and should be locked in a dark hole somewhere.

This country is really some shyt.

 

[Alix217]

Demonic shyt. This is gonna be super common.

You're gonna have tons of women walking around with dead fetuses inside of them and hospitals saying they can't extract till the 9 month mark.

 

[Swirv]

Republicans want to kill women

 

[Silkk]

Thats fukking insane

 

[dr. pill biden]

activist doctors are doing this shyt on purpose. they know if a fetus is already dead its not an abortion but they are so determine to change the law they feign ignorance/confusion and let women suffer to achieve their political aims. this is the real definition of “by any means necessary”

 

[Elim Garak]

activist doctors are doing this shyt on purpose. they know if a fetus is already dead its not an abortion but they are so determine to change the law they feign ignorance/confusion and let women suffer to achieve their political aims. this is the real definition of “by any means necessary”

 

[Jx2]

This is going so great for Republicans guys

 

[RickyDiBiase]

America trying to outdo the Taliban with the fundamentalisms. Us black folk in Red America gotta move differently for awhile, this is all just the beginning.

 

[Elim Garak]

America trying to outdo the Taliban with the fundamentalisms. Us black folk in Red America gotta move differently for awhile, this is all just the beginning.

Basically these Republicans want religious fundamentalism although they not even following there own book lol.

 

[pawdalaw]

When men try to tell women what to do with their bodies... Couldn't believe all the brehs on here celebrating the reversal. Keep your morality to yourself and family.

Because when people that don't look like us have imposed their wills on us, we saw the outcome. God knows how to judge just fine, if you never carried a baby, you have no business to...

 

[Mordith]

I don't want to hear any whining from white women. I want to see action in November.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

When men try to tell women what to do with there bodies. Couldn't believe all the brehs on here celebrating the reversal. Keep your morality to yourself and family.

Because when people that don't look like us have imposed their's on us, we saw the outcome. God knows how to judge just fine, if you never carried a baby, you have no business to...

A lot of men who don't get women were cheering on the bullshyt. They want to punish them for not being chosen. fukk whatever fake morality spin they put on this shyt.

 

[RickyDiBiase]

Basically these Republicans want religious fundamentalism although they not even following there own book lol.

You can't ever reason with irrational sociopaths. Only the naïve can. Which is why I stress to black folk not to waste time arguing or discussing matters from race to economics with them. Let the Bernie Sanders, Liberals and Conservative whites handle their own dirty laundry. We just gotta focus on us and be prepared to take action if they wanna finally decide to get froggy.

 

[Paper Boi]

deranged ass society.

i never want to hear these fukking cacs say anything about sharia law ever again