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Tennessee woman denied abortion after fetus’ ‘brain not attached’ slams ban
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 14 May 2024
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She discovered the nonviability of the fetus in January 2023, and had an abortion in February.
The loss of her tube and ovary sounds like the abortion was not performed correctly.
Edit: looks like a whole bunch of people are mistaking what I meant. She should not have had to go to Chicago to get the healthcare she needed and, potentially, could have saved her own body.
Possibly it was due to the operation but the remedy was clear and she still had to wait. The longer the wait the greater the risk and the outcome likely would've been better if this was handled immediately. The point is that the law ignores medical best practices in the name of "saving lives" which, in a case like this, is no less than a form of torture for the hopeful parents.
Yes, absolutely. I didn't mean to imply that the state of TN had no culpability in denying the medical care this woman needed. The story makes it sound like her health problems happened because her abortion was performed incorrectly, and while that is always a risk, had she not had to wait a month to get it her outcome might have been significantly better.
In any case, this is why women deserve the right to make decisions about their health and their body, independent of Conservative input.
The risk of infection rises as longer the dead tissue stays inside. The dead tissue being the retained pregnancy material.
Dilation and curettage is a blind procedure in which the the pregnancy is removed by suction. Most of the times some aprt does stay behind. Those are usually shed during menstruation.
Why not complete removal done?
Because a more vigorous curettage might cause uterus to rupture. So the doctors rely on bodies capacity to heal itself.