Won't be surprised if they do start investigating miscarriages. Which is exactly what a mother who recently miscarried needs.
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The same procedures and medications used in abortions are also used to safely care for miscarriages.
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“Medically, miscarriage and abortions are treated in very similar way,” said Dr. Stephanie Mischell, a family medicine physician in Texas and fellow with Physicians for Reproductive Health.
"That means that laws that restrict abortion or that outlaw certain
medications or procedures used in abortion, also have the potential to limit treatment for miscarriage."
“There is this false assumption that abortions can be regulated and restricted and criminalized without impacting women’s health care more broadly,” said Yvonne Lindgren, an associate professor of law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, who specializes in reproductive rights.
Inga, 62, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, still feels the trauma of her miscarriage from nearly 30 years ago. (She requested her last name not be used due to the stigma around miscarriage.)
She was 13 weeks pregnant with her third child.
Extremely heavy bleeding led to a drop in her blood pressure, and her husband rushed her to the emergency room of a Catholic hospital in the state.
“I was crashing,” Inga said. “I thought, ‘This could kill me.’”
At the hospital, doctors confirmed she was having a miscarriage. After staunching the bleeding, an obstetrician wanted to perform a procedure called a dilation and curettage — commonly referred to as a D&C — to remove the tissue from the uterus. Not doing so could lead to sepsis or other serious complications, sometimes within hours.
But the hospital, which was subject to
religious doctrine, wouldn’t allow it due to strict anti-abortion policies. That’s because a D&C is also the procedure used during a surgical abortion.
Inga went home for three days. During that time, her body attempted to pass the tissue that remained in her uterus. She recalls the pain as constant and unbearable.
Finally, she got the green light to get the procedure, but only if she would first undergo an ultrasound to make sure there was no heartbeat."