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Sep 13Liked by Bonnie Fuller

Great article- thanks for the rundown. Miscarriage mismanagement is running amok daily in Texas. This week for me it was a molar pregnancy, an accident of reproduction which will never be a baby and has a risk of placental cancer. She was bleeding heavily, but with a “heartbeat”. Because of that visible flicker, the lawyers had to consider the case before a procedure could be posted at the hospital.

The patient was unwilling to wait over the weekend for them to have their little meeting, because we couldn’t guarantee her they would agree to let the case go forward.

She left Texas for Mexico, where she had her safe and legal abortion. Texas, proud home of Baylor Medical School and the American Board of OBGyn, can’t take care of her patients because lawyers and hospitals are unwilling to take a stand for pregnancy loss. Doctors are willing, but they are not. Hospitals and their legal teams are craven cowards. In their board rooms, with no tears or blood, it must be easier to say no.

We have to decriminalize the treatment of pregnancy loss.

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Thank you so much for sharing this new example of how women with non viable pregnancies which are dangerous to their health are forced to flee Texas to save their lives. I will continue to cover the situation in Texas and other abortion ban states.

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