tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18587935.post338429196176712186..comments2024-01-31T04:02:00.929-05:00Comments on Litbrit: Anti-Choice, therefore Anti-Health and Anti-WomenDeborah Newellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02527317477388626268noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18587935.post-21516962700116931582015-02-06T11:15:21.896-05:002015-02-06T11:15:21.896-05:00For an ectopic pregnancy in the fallopian tubes th...For an ectopic pregnancy in the fallopian tubes that is detected early, i.e. by ultrasound, best medical practice is to treat the woman with methotrexate, which halts embryo growth and induces a period--a chemical abortion. Catholics consider this murder. So they wait until the heartbeat, if detected, has stopped, and the woman has already started bleeding--often sending her home until this happens--that way they can avoid performing what they call a "direct abortion".<br /><br />Catholic hospitals are the worst place to be if you're unlucky enough to have an ectopic pregnancy--all of which are doomed, by the way, with extremely few exceptions; all of which are medical emergencies that, if left untreated long enough, will ruin a woman's health and fertility and can cost her her LIFE. The standard practice for treating ectopic pregnancies in Catholic hospitals is to remove a woman's fallopian tube and/or ovary, and the embryo along with it will of course expire--they are fine with this because what they're doing is a salpingectomy and "indirect abortion", not the dreaded "direct abortion" that the much safer, fertility-preserving methotrexate causes. They don't give a shit about the fact that the woman has lost half her fertility--has lost part of her own body!<br /><br />All in service of the Almighty Fetus Über Alles mentality, which is bullshit because the embryo is doomed regardless and the only question is, <i>Do we do the best thing for this woman patient, or do we obey some fucking Bishop by performing surgery and unnecessarily removing part of her organs in order to conform to the semantic tap-dance that is "no DIRECT abortion".</i><br /><br />If it seems as though I'm furious about this stuff, I am.Deborah Newellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02527317477388626268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18587935.post-70755152040951097322015-02-06T09:10:38.227-05:002015-02-06T09:10:38.227-05:00Jesus Christ -- they sent her home to miscarry??
...Jesus Christ -- they sent her home to miscarry??<br /><br />I knew things were fucked up in this country, but I didn't know they were this fucked up. Lisa Simeonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08541483476456219974noreply@blogger.com