#Septic uterus

[claraameliapond]

Here's Why Abortion Is Essential Health Care

[ilianaoftroy]

Every once and a while I think about the forced birther here on Tumblr who basically said I was a sociopath because I work as an embryologist and expressed concern for women suffering pregnancy complications due to the overturning of Roe v Wade. They demanded examples and then rationalized the ones provided away. Admittedly, the legit articles I provided were behind a paywall, bc, you know, real research costs money. It was a non productive conversation because this person felt such circumstances were 'rare' and I guess didn't care if those women died.

The next day I performed an embryo transfer for a woman who had suffered five miscarriages requiring medical intervention in the past. Because of where she lives, she got care, still has a functioning uterus, and can try again to start a desperately wanted family with her beloved spouse. Then I signed congrats cards for 6 patients who had sent our office birth announcements.

It's been a year and I still think about the difficulties the patients I work with would face in other states. How I will never relocate places because I could be left untreated until septic, not to mention not have a job. How I have fewer rights than my mother did at my age. Today I came across this pay wall free paper, fairly limited in scope, confirming the complications in healthcare for pregnant people post Roe v Wade. But what I do know. I just work with people with complex pregnancies every day.

[darkmaga-retard]

Amber Nicole Thurman died of septic shock with “retained products of conception” in late summer 2022. Just a few weeks before, the overturn of Roe v. Wade triggered Georgia’s state law banning abortions from the sixth week of pregnancy. Thurman’s death, when recently examined by the State of Georgia’s maternal mortality review board, was deemed “preventable.” Georgia doctors did not immediately remove the dead infant remains from her uterus when Thurman arrived at the hospital in critical condition, having taken pills to chemically abort her twin babies at nine weeks’ gestation. 

Candi Miller, also from Georgia, ordered her abortion pills online. The Dutch supplier Aid Access, which imports its pills from India, sends DIY abortion kits all over the world, including to approximately 7,000 U.S. customers each month. Miller did not know how far along she was in her fourth pregnancy when she took the pills, only that she was afraid of the state’s new law banning abortions and equally afraid of being pregnant again due to chronic diabetes and lupus. When she died at home a few days later, her autopsy revealed high doses of diphenhydramine (the active ingredient in Benadryl), acetaminophen (found in painkillers such as Tylenol), as well as fentanyl in Miller’s body. The founder of Aid Access, Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, told ProPublica “it was clear the abortion pill did not cause [Miller’s] death,” even though Miller was not in critical condition until immediately after taking the pills.  

Somehow, these two stories are supposed to mean legalizing more abortion would prevent more deaths. Bans cause doctors to deny women life-saving procedures—never mind that no life-saving would be needed had these mothers not taken abortion pills in the first place—and therefore, bans kill. ProPublica notes at the end of its report that “no doctor has been prosecuted for violating abortion bans,” but who knows when one might? 

The publication of Thurman and Miller’s stories this week has already brought a flurry of Democratic statements on the danger of abortion bans for the health of women. The spin, however, cannot remain unburdened by what has been: Miller didn’t die because she was pregnant. She died in the process of attempting to take her unborn child’s life, with $80 mail-order abortion pills and fentanyl besides. Thurman didn’t develop sepsis because she was pregnant. She developed it because she tried to end her pregnancy using an FDA-approved drug under FDA-approved circumstances. The buck does not stop with the doctors who failed to save her life after that fact. 

[vomitdodger]

This is the true story of the tragic event making the news about abortion. She had retained products of conception (POC) that became infected. Zero follow up care and went septic then died. Normally an ultrasound would be performed to ensure all POC has cleared the uterus. But abortionists don’t like ultrasounds either because it shows the beating heart.

There’s at least 1 if not 2 others just like this. Being used as a lie for abortion (yet again)

[killed-by-choice]

“Regina Roe,” 23 (USA 1972–1978)

“Regina” had multiple pre-existing risk factors before the legal abortion that took her life. She was obese and had recently suffered PID (pelvic inflammatory disease). In addition, the study that recorded Regina’s death noted that based on the data they were able to collect, Black women like her were over three times more likely to die from a second-trimester surgical abortion than a white woman.

Regina underwent the D&E abortion (colloquially known as a dismemberment abortion) at 13 weeks pregnant in a hospital. In theory, the hospital was supposed to have the equipment to save her life. However, even the resources of the hospital wouldn’t save her once the abortionist perforated her uterus and left parts of her baby and/or the placenta rotting inside of her body.

Because of the uterine perforation and incomplete abortion, Regina developed peritonitis and went into septic shock. The infection and injuries killed her. A “safe and legal” abortion made her oldest child an only child, and then took away their mother.

(Regina Roe is Case 2)

[anamericangirl]

You'll have to be more specific about what an "unsafe" abortion is and where you have seen a massive spike. All abortions are unsafe because a procedure that kills a human being is unsafe by definition.

Well no, medical professionals would disagree. A safe abortion is that one that isn’t high risk for women. Safe abortions clinic abortions have less than 1% chance of severe complications, it’s one of the safest medical procedures there is.

Back alley abortions were not just illegal abortions done by medical professionals & even when they were, it was more complex than that. A lot were done by those who didn’t have a medical license or by the women themselves.

Illegal abortionists sometimes opted instead to simply induce enough of a miscarriage that their patient could go to a hospital and get one without a problem. They did this often by inserting a foreign object, like a hollow tube catheter, through the cervix. In some cases, they used type of catheter with a balloon on one end. Filled with saline, it would put pressure on the cervix, like a fetus’s head would towards the end of pregnancy, causing it to fully dilate. Just sticking any catheter in could prompt a miscarriage as the body tried to expel the object.

People who couldn’t find or afford an illegal abortion often tried to give one to themselves. It’s impossible to say how many of these happened every year, but there are records showing thousands of people coming into emergency rooms with septic infections of the uterus and reproductive organs in the 1960s.

This was dangerous obviously. It could cause hemorrhages and embolisms. And catheters had to be left in for a while, along with gauze packed into the patient’s vagina to staunch the blood. This could cause infection and with patients trying to hide from authorities, they often didn’t seek treatment until near death.

The coat hanger was another method done by women themselves, it was one of many objects women would try to insert through their own cervical openings. The goal was not necessarily to complete an abortion at home but rather to induce enough bleeding and symptoms of miscarriage that the person could go to a hospital, say they were having a miscarriage naturally, and get a hospital D&C.

We can learn from data from other countries who have outlawed abortion vs those who keep abortion legal.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(20)30315-6/fulltext

https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/induced-abortion-worldwide

https://gh.bmj.com/content/7/3/e007151

https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2817%2931794-4

https://www.guttmacher.org/sites/default/files/factsheet/ib_aww-latin-america.pdf

I also find it very ironic that the states in the US with the strictest abortion bans are the ones with the highest maternal mortality rates. And also the ones with the weakest maternal support since they are among the states that refuse to expand their Medicaid programs.

This is very long so I'll make sure to put a "keep reading" option for scrolling ease.

Abortion is Not Safe

I don't know where you found or came up with the idea that abortion clinics have less than 1% chance of severe complications and that it's one of the safest medical procedures there is but you could not be further from the truth.

If a safe abortion is one that isn't high risk for women, like you claim, then a safe abortion doesn't exist. All abortions are high risk for women in multiple different ways.

Abortion triples the maternal mortality rate (and, interestingly, it was also found that a safe delivery is linked to reduction in mortality risks that are associated with both miscarriage and abortion).

Abortion increases the risk of premature death for a woman by 50%.

Abortion harms women's mental health

some bullet points from the article:

″Women who have had an abortion have an 81% higher risk of subsequent mental health problems compared to women who have not had an abortion.

″Women who aborted have a 138% higher risk of mental health problems compared to women who have given birth.

″Women who aborted have a 55% higher risk of mental health problems compared to women with an "unplanned" pregnancy who gave birth.

″Women with a history of abortion have higher rates of anxiety (34% higher), depression (37%), alcohol use/misuse (110%), marijuana use (230%), and suicidal behavior (155%), compared to those who have not had an abortion.

Abortion increases the risk of breast cancer by 44% in women who have had just one abortion and the risk gets even higher with multiple abortions.

There are multiple risks associated with abortion.

More ways abortion hurts women.

Some bullet points from the above article:

31% of women having abortions report suffering physical health complications (1)

10% of women having abortions suffer immediate, potentially life-threatening complications (2, 3, 4)

Women have a 65% higher risk of clinical depression following abortion vs. childbirth (5)

65% of women suffer symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) after abortion (1)

Women’s death rates from various causes after abortion are 3.5 times higher than after giving birth  (6, 7)

Many women describe their experience as ‘a nightmare’, which can hardly equated with ‘choice’. 60% of women surveyed after abortion responded that: ’Part of me died’ (1)

Suicide rates among women who have abortions are six times higher than those who give birth (7, 8)

Abortion increases a woman’s risk of future miscarriages by 60% (9)

A procedure that carries all these severe risks is not safe for women so I don't know where you get the idea that it's one of the safest medical procedures in existence or that there's a less than 1% chance of severe complications because that is absolutely not the case. And, honestly, even if that were true (but it's not) you continued to use rape victims to argue for abortion even though abortions due to rape account for less than 1% of abortions so if less than 1% is a valid statistic for you to use to base an argument on, then it's valid for me too.

Anyone who is genuinely concerned with the health and safety of women and isn't just using it as a shallow political prop would not advocate for abortion or brush off the multiple studies that show how harmful it is.

And I just want to point out here how contradictory it is to claim abortion is one of the safest medical procedures there is while at the same time claiming if it’s illegal women are going to die and seriously hurt themselves through illegal abortions. You do see how it’s contradictory, right? One of the “safest medical procedures there is” wouldn’t become life threateningly dangerous when done illegally. Both those statements can’t be true.

Illegal Abortions

Before I officially get into this section, let me ask you this: how would you react if I said making child trafficking illegal will not stop it from happening and just enables children to be hurt in more dangerous ways. We need to create a legal and regulated method for child trafficking so that it can be done safely? Would you agree with that? Hopefully not. And it's not a good argument for abortion just like it's not a good argument for child trafficking. We do not make intentionally harming and committing acts of violence on innocent people legal and "safe" because some people will have the means and motive to do it anyway. That is an awful argument for legality.

I don't know where you got any of your claims regarding illegal abortions so I'm just going to give some general information regarding the reality of illegal and legal abortions.

First, it's just not true that the legality of abortion has no influence whatsoever on whether or not a woman chooses to have an abortion. The data simply doesn't agree with that assertion.

The CDC found that "from 1970 through 1982, the reported number of legal abortions in the United States increased every year." The reported number of abortions massively increasing every year after it became legal heavily suggest that the legality actually does impact the abortion rate. But this is not all we have that shows us that.

The abortion rate of non-metropolitan women is about half that of women who live in metropolitan counties.

Studies have found that public funding of abortion makes services accessible to women who would otherwise carry unintended pregnancies to term.

The abortion rate of women with Medicaid coverage is three times as high as that of other women.

Mississippi's "two-trip" requirement, which was the first of its kind to be enforced, reduced the abortion rate for Mississippi residents by over 15% in the first 12 months.

So, if you pay attention to the data here, it tells us that women who live close to abortion facilities are twice as likely to have an abortion as women who don't, and women who can have abortions publicly paid for are three times as likely to have an abortion. Meanwhile, having to take a second trip to the abortion clinic makes women 15% less likely to have an abortion. There are a lot of factors that influence a woman's decision to have an abortion and legality is a big one, despite what you've heard from other pro-choicers. It turns out when something is made very convenient and you don't have to go through the trouble of breaking laws, you're more likely to choose certain things, even when it comes to abortion.

So now that we have that out of the way we can address the fear mongering argument of "but without abortion being legal women will just have back alley abortions or use coat hangers and hurt or kill themselves!!!!!!!" This is such a hypocritical argument for any pro-choicer to make btw because you're acting like you're concerned that someone might die while arguing for the "right" to commit murder.

Dr. Bernard Nathanson, who cofounded NARAL, is one of the reasons people like you think there was and will be again an epidemic of women dying from illegal abortions if abortion is outlawed as he is one the people behind the claim that around 10,000 women died each year from illegal abortions before Roe v Wade was passed. But in his work Aborting America he wrote:

How many deaths were we talking about when abortion was illegal? In N.A.R.A.L., we generally emphasized the drama of the individual case, not the mass statistics, but when we spoke of the latter it was always "5,000 to 10,000 deaths a year." I confess that I knew the figures were totally false, and I suppose the others did too if they stopped to think of it. But in the "morality" of our revolution, it was a useful figure, widely accepted, so why go out of our way to correct it with honest statistics? The overriding concern was to get the laws eliminated, and anything within reason that had to be done was permissible.

We also have this quote from Dr. Christopher Tietze, who was the chief statistician for Planned Parenthood and the CDC around the time this was being spread.

Some 30 years ago it was judged that such deaths (from illegal abortion) might number 5,000 to 10,000 per year, but this rate even if it was approximately correct at the time, cannot be anywhere near the true rate now. The total number of deaths from all causes among women of reproductive age in the U.S. is not more than about 50,000 per year. The National Center for Health Statistics listed 235 deaths from abortion in 1965. Total mortality from illegal abortions was undoubtedly larger than that figure, but in all likelihood it was under 1,000.8

The year before Roe v Wade was passed the CDC started collecting data on abortion mortality and they found that there were 39 deaths from illegal abortions and 24 deaths from legal abortions. This information makes it quite clear that there is not a bunch of women going out and dying from illegal abortions, or even attempting them, like you pro-choicers claim is inevitable and will happen on a large scale if it abortion is illegal.

But here is something interesting to note: The National Abortion Federation has asserted that between 1970 and 1980, legal abortions may have prevented around 1500 pregnancy related deaths in the US. So let's just give them the benefit of the doubt here and assume they are right. During that same time period, 15 million people were killed by abortion. The lives "saved" by abortion account for 0.0001% of the total amount of lives that it took. So if you want to talk about the lives at stake with the legality or illegality of abortion the numbers are incomparable. There is no question that the amount of lives arguably saved by abortion is virtually nonexistent when you compare it to the number of human lives abortion kills.

The next thing to address here is the idea that a legal abortion is a "safe" abortion and illegal abortion is an "unsafe" abortion because pro-choicers love to spread the idea that women are going to be performing surgical procedures on themselves with coat hangers in dark alleyways. Those of you who make this argument need to understand that what has made abortion "safer" is not its legal status but improvements and advancements in medical technology.

Mary Calderon, who was the former director of Planned Parenthood, wrote an article in 1960 that was published in the American Journal of Public Health and in it she estimated that around 90% of illegal abortions were performed by licensed physicians and that with the improvements in medical technology, abortion, whether done legally or illegally, is not dangerous.

Abortion is no longer a dangerous procedure. This applies not just to therapeutic abortions as performed in hospitals but also to so-called illegal abortions as done by physicians. In 1957 there were only 260 deaths in the whole country attributed to abortions of any kind. In New York City in 1921 there were 144 abortion deaths, In 1951 there were only 15; and , while the abortion death rate was going down so strikingly in that 30-year period, we know what happened to the population and the birth rate. Two corollary factors must be mentioned here: first, chemotherapy and antibiotics have come in, benefiting all surgical procedures as well as abortion. Second, and even more important, the conference estimated that 90 percent of all illegal abortions are presently being done by physicians. Call them what you will, abortionists or anything else, they are still physicians, trained as such; and many of them are in good standing in their communities. They must do a pretty good job if the death rate is as low as it is...abortion, whether therapeutic or illegal, is in the main no longer dangerous.11

In 2009, research done by the The National Abortion Federation confirmed Calderons claims. See, the future of abortion is more medical than surgical. Using medication to induce abortion or finding a doctor who is willing to perform an illegal abortion since they will already have the necessary tools would be the most common methods of procuring an illegal abortion rather than women attempting to perform surgery on themselves with a coat hanger. That's just an emotional appeal not based on facts.

Most of this information can be found here and here and it will also direct you to other source material if you are actually interested in learning more about this.

Maternal Mortality

I'm going to try to keep this section as brief as I can since this is already super long, but I looked over your links and I'm not sure what point you're trying to make with them. I didn't see a compelling argument for abortion in any of them. It seemed like most were just saying "abortion is going to happen even if it's illegal" and I've already addressed that point.

This image is a little blurry, unfortunately, but what this chart shows us is that the maternal mortality rate in childbirth is nearly 0% in most of the developed countries around the world. This shows us pregnancy and childbirth isn't killing women and abortion isn't saving lives.

The claim that abortion restrictions directly correlate to a higher maternal death rate is unfounded doesn't stand up to scrutiny. If abortion restrictions contribute to higher maternal mortality rates how do you explain Poland? Abortion is almost entirely restricted there (it only has one or two exceptions) and it has one of the lowest maternal mortality rates in the world.

So implying that some states have a high maternal mortality rate because they have strict abortion laws is completely unfounded. Many things can contribute to maternal mortality but so far there is no evidence that directly connects abortion restrictions to those factors.

And this is not to say we can't do better. We can always work to improve our conditions and our healthcare and there is a lot that still needs to be improved in the medical field and we can do a lot better when it comes to pregnancy and childbirth (I've seen a lot to suggest that increasing the usage of midwives could reduce somewhere around 80% of maternal deaths but I don't want to get into that right now because I would have to do a lot more research on it).

So you can look at one or two areas and see a correlation and immediately assume the mortality rate is because abortion is restricted but that narrative falls apart when you open the door and walk outside. We will not ever completely eliminate maternal mortality. That's impossible. But if abortion restrictions increased maternal mortality, then it would only be logical that everywhere with strict abortion laws would have a higher maternal mortality rate but that's not what we see.

Pregnancy, even though there are isolated incidences of women who experience fatal complications, is overall not killing women, as you can see from the chart and there is absolutely no historical or medical evidence that suggests abortion saves lives. And even if it did, we saw earlier that alleged percentage of lives saved is not a good trade off for the number of lives it takes.

I could go on but I'll stop here because I've said a lot and I doubt you'll even read it but there it is. Before I go, though, I want to give a shout out to @thepro-lifemovement because I discovered a lot of these resources through her blog where she has been compiling them for some time and would encourage you to check her out if you want to go deeper into some of these issues.

[catboymoments]

since you're sharing danganronpa headcanons—do you have any about tsumiki? :0

I think Mikan has a bit of an oval face and she’s more on the chubby side? I have a very specific idea of how her body is built…. Also idc what the game says I like the idea of her being tall

She’s canonly clumsy in the “accidental panty shot” kind of way but I think she’s constantly covered in mysterious bruises and cuts from bumping into tables and such. She always has cute bandaids in her pockets but never uses them for herself, she keeps them around in case her friends need them

In true “nursing student” fashion I think she’s always asking to take her friends BP or to help her practice inserting IVs. She likes to keep herself busy by practicing stitches on fruit. You smell an orange in class, you turn around, it’s Mikan. She’s not eating it though, she’s suturing it.

Although she’s shaky, clumsy and fearful, when it comes to medicine she’s cool and levelheaded and fast. You don’t become the ultimate nurse by being a klutz! Her demeanor changes the moment there’s an emergency- like if someone collapses during sports and they can’t breathe, she’s the one hopping on top of them and doing compressions.

Postgame she cuts her hair into a pixie to leave behind the pain in her past and she grows it out and it’s cute!! But it’s only after a really bad emergency. After being comatose in the NWP, she was withdrawn from taking her anti-rejection meds for a while and Junko’s uterus she transplanted into herself started to reject and rot. She went septic and almost died, but luckily Hajime saved her life. That was a huge turning point for her.

[reidbauer123]

On February 17th, Brie and Reid welcomed their third baby boy, Beau, into the world via emergency C-section at 27 weeks.

Brie was not feeling great earlier in the day and went to get checked out at urgent care. An ultrasound was performed where the doctor was able to see that Brie was having contractions, during which baby’s heart rate was dropping. Brie was sent for an emergency c-section. The family thought Brie was suffering from a placenta abruption but quickly learned that she was septic due to strep bacteria. The strep concentrated in her uterus, causing it to die and the placenta began detaching.

The rapid response team was present in the OR but had been called there for baby Bauer. While they were in the room, Brie’s breathing tube was pulled out and she began hemorrhaging and declining quickly. The rapid response team jumped into action and got the breathing tube back in immediately and ensured she never went without oxygen.

[yourtoradorasextendedwarranty]

This is why we don't let kids vote.

Because literally none of this is true. If you have an Ectopic pregnancy the pregnancy is non viable and MEDICALLY it is not considered abortion.

Septic uterus' in pregnancy are exceedingly rare but mostly when they do happen early delivery is always an option after viability. I would know because I am one such case.

A miscarriage is not an abortion because and abortion is, "The intentional termination of a baby in the womb by a doctor". A miscarriage implies it died. So no, you can't terminate an already terminated pregnancy.

And the DNC genZ hack is a great liar. Lots of people love his content. Except he's spreading misinformation. To others his age who are exceedingly susceptible to said misinformation.

Again. This is why we don't want the voting age to be lowered. And the only people that WANT kids to vote, are the same people who most kids would vote for. Why? Because kids are easy to indoctrinate, and lie to. And they also have an affinity for idealistic views that are not functional. It's also why they can't CONSENT! Because understanding consequences are not something they are good at.

[nsk96]

Personal rant

EEEEEEEEP IM IN PAIN but not as much pain as previous menstruations. But it’s just constant now. I feel like I can’t do anything because of the pain and I’m expected to bake banana bread soon ಥ_ಥ

I didn’t take any painkillers yet because I wanted to see the difference with the birth control I started taking this month.

Long story short, I was diagnosed with endometriosis last month. It’s the reason for my irregularly long and painful periods. Apparently, my ovarian cysts that my previous gyno was monitoring with frequent ultrasounds for nearly 4 years, were due to endometriosis in my fallopian tubes that was bleeding into my ovaries every month. I have like an 4cm cyst filled with blood.

Two previous doctors missed this for years ಥ_ಥ

So now my new gyno who figured it out with just one ultrasound, prescribed this low-dose birth control and I can’t wait to not have any more painful periods and to be able to function without having to load up on ibuprofen for a whole week every month.

And she told me it’s a good thing we caught it because it could make me infertile if it went untreated seeing as it was severely affecting my ovaries.

I’m kinda scared though that having endometrial tissue growth in my fallopian tubes would put me at a higher risk of ectopic pregnancy like my mom. I want to have kids in the future eventually but with the current laws, it’s not even worth the risk. Many of the women who needed an abortion for miscarriage and couldn’t get it until septic, ended up unable to have any more children.

My mom years ago had to get a full hysterectomy. An ectopic pregnancy caused her to have to get a partial hysterectomy, which was then botched and caused the rest of her uterus and everything to start necrotizing, which left her bleeding and in pain for months (with no help from my dad with chores or anything) until she saw another doctor who then said she’d need a complete hysterectomy.

This all just makes me want to live alone for the rest of my life. Save up for retirement and all and when the time comes, check myself into a nursing home. Or maybe I can get a small cabin in the woods and become that spooky witch that parents tell scary stories about to scare their kids into behaving. I think it’d be interesting to live in a house that looks like candy like the witch from Hansel and Gretel, or a walking house like baba yaga

[dezz111]

It’s Murder Before Birth, Everything After is Statistic

“All day, every day, therapist, mother, maid, nymph, then a virgin, nurse, then a servant. Just an appendage, live to attend him so that he never lifts a finger. Twenty-four-seven baby machine, so he can live out his picket fence dreams. It's not an act of love if you make her. You make me do too much labour…

(Paloma)

”

     On March 23rd, Paris Paloma released a song that had taken the women of TikTok by storm. It was everything we as women wanted to say to the patriarchy. We, the women (or anyone in possession of a uterus) have the oh-so-wonderful “duty” of bearing the next generation.  Whether by choice or by force. With the overturning of Roe V Wade last year, our rights seem to be doing a moonwalk into medieval times. The Supreme Court claimed to be Pro-Life and was backed by thousands of self-righteous people who most definitely don't want to adopt your baby like the hypotheticals profess. All they really cared to do was “protect their houses, protect their friends, protect their wallets. But women is where it ends…(Romeo).” Because they're not the ones losing nine months of their autonomy with a minimum sentence of 18 years if they decide to keep little Timmy out of some guilt-ridden form of responsibility. The decision to actually ban abortions was left up to each individual state, because God forbid they take full responsibility for their actions. Which has been anything but fine and dandy, especially if you live in Texas. Or the South in general, really. But lo and behold, a white man did what white men do best and swung his proverbial dick named Audacity. And of course, he's from Texas.

(Sorry Sandy, no defending Texas now.)

   Enter Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk, the cherry-picked pick-me of the Texan government. Cocksmark issued a preliminary ruling invalidating the Food and Drug Administration’s 23-year-old approval of the abortion pill mifepristone. Mifepristone is a drug best known for being the safest option for abortions, something lawmakers have an issue with unless the hot secretary needs one. It also has been studied alongside cancers, the drug has proven effective in blocking progesterone, a hormone that helps some cancers grow (Koide). But that’s just cancer, something that kills living children and their parents. No, what Cocksmark is worried about happens before the brain has even developed. Or hasn’t developed. Or is even viable? It really just comes down to if the egg was ever fertilized. It doesn't matter if it's an ectopic pregnancy, your womb goes septic or your baby is born without a skull. Not even the permanent loss of function for your fallopian tube (which you kinda need to make a baby) isn’t enough (Zernike).

Now this drug has been around for as long as I’ve been alive and if it ain't broke, why change it? Because. That's simply it. Because. There’s no rhyme or reason to it. They change it because they can. For men who are quickly finding their privilege coming into question and their egos in check, there's a level of control they feel they must impose as their testosterone levels drop and the blue pill waits for them in the back. There’s an archaic part of their brain that never made it out of the sixties that desires to see the world below their feet and pesky things like reproductive rights make it hard to keep Barbara at home pregnant with the kids. There’s a status quo they wish to maintain built upon a weaponized belief system. 

But that’s just speculation.

What’s not speculation is that while they say we can’t “kill our innocent kids”, someone else definitely will. Because I’m writing this on April 16, 2023, and just yesterday there were 9 mass shootings in the United States of America. On April 10th, there was a mass shooting in Louisville, Kentucky that killed five people and left four injured. Out of all the mass shootings I could have chosen, this one, in particular, is special. Because this shooting marked the 146th mass shooting in 100 days. Now, I’m really bad at math. But I'm pretty sure that means that there were more mass shootings than days in the year. Six days later and we are at 163 mass shootings. That means in less than a week, we’ve had 17 mass shootings (Gun Violence Archive). 

Since this whole gun control thing seems to be a joke, let's tally up the score:  

Mass Shootings: 163

Mass Murders: 15

Children (Ages 0-11)

Killed: 75

Injured: 172

Teens (ages 12-17) 

Killed: 434

Injured: 1,503

Defensive Uses: 306

Suicide: 6,996

Total Injuries: 9,506

Total Deaths: 12,246

   There has been a grand total of 12,246 deaths due to gun violence this year. And what do we win?! A Gucci belt to go with our third-world title! (Cue thunderous applause.) Because we have to be winning at something if there’s no change.

Gasp!

I finally get it. With this younger generation not wanting to bring children into a world that gives them nothing but trauma, the government will just force them to do it. Because who will buy more guns for us to shoot each other with if no one replaces the kids we kill? It's the Circle of Life! Hakuna Matta, your life is worth less than a wartime law unless you're still in the womb.

Or you're a dog. Then, you can have an abortion.

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[moontyger]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Bleeding and in pain, Kyleigh Thurman didn’t know her doomed pregnancy could kill her.

Emergency room doctors at Ascension Seton Williamson in Texas handed her a pamphlet on miscarriage and told her to “let nature take its course” before discharging her without treatment for her ectopic pregnancy.

When the 25-year-old returned three days later, still bleeding, doctors finally agreed to give her an injection to end the pregnancy. It was too late. The fertilized egg growing on Thurman’s fallopian tube ruptured it, destroying part of her reproductive system.

That’s according to a complaint Thurman and the Center for Reproductive Rights filed last week asking the government to investigate whether the hospital violated federal law when staff failed to treat her initially in February 2023.

“I was left to flail,” Thurman said. “It was nothing short of being misled.”

The Biden administration says hospitals must offer abortions when needed to save a woman’s life, despite state bans enacted after the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to an abortion more than two years ago. Texas is challenging that guidance and, earlier this summer, the Supreme Court declined to resolve the issue.

More than 100 pregnant women in medical distress who sought help from emergency rooms were turned away or negligently treated since 2022, an Associated Press analysis of federal hospital investigations found.

Two women — one in Florida and one in Texas — were left to miscarry in public restrooms. In Arkansas, a woman went into septic shock and her fetus died after an emergency room sent her home. At least four other women with ectopic pregnancies had trouble getting treatment, including one in California who needed a blood transfusion after she sat for nine hours in an emergency waiting room.

Abortion bans complicate risky pregnancy care

In Texas, where doctors face up to 99 years of prison if convicted of performing an illegal abortion, medical and legal experts say the law is complicating decision-making around emergency pregnancy care.

Although the state law says termination of ectopic pregnancies isn’t considered abortion, the draconian penalties scare Texas doctors from treating those patients, the Center for Reproductive Rights argues.

“As fearful as hospitals and doctors are of running afoul of these state abortion bans, they also need to be concerned about running afoul of federal law,” said Marc Hearron, a center attorney. Hospitals face a federal investigation, hefty penalties and threats to their Medicare funding if they violate the federal law.

The organization filed complaints last week with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service alleging that different Texas emergency rooms failed to treat two patients, including Thurman, with ectopic pregnancies.

One complaint says Kelsie Norris-De La Cruz, 25, lost a fallopian tube and most of an ovary after an Arlington, Texas, hospital sent her home without treating her ectopic pregnancy, even after a doctor said discharge was “not in her best interest.”

“The doctors knew I needed an abortion, but these bans are making it nearly impossible to get basic emergency healthcare,” she said in a statement. “I’m filing this complaint because women like me deserve justice and accountability from those that hurt us.”

Conclusively diagnosing an ectopic pregnancy can be difficult. Doctors cannot always find the pregnancy’s location on an ultrasound, three doctors consulted for this article explained. Hormone levels, bleeding, a positive pregnancy test and an ultrasound of an empty uterus all indicate an ectopic pregnancy.

“You can’t be 100% — that’s the tricky part,” said Kate Arnold, an OB-GYN in Washington. “They’re literally time bombs. It’s a pregnancy growing in this thing that can only grow so much.”

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Troubles extend beyond abortion ban states

Serious violations that jeopardized a mother or her fetus’ health occurred in states with and without abortion bans, the AP’s review found.

Two short-staffed hospitals — in Idaho and Washington — admitted to investigators they routinely directed pregnant patients to other hospitals.

A pregnant patient at a Bakersfield, California, emergency room was quickly triaged, but staff failed to realize the urgency of her condition, a uterine rupture. The delay, an investigator concluded, may have contributed to the baby’s death.

Doctors at emergency rooms in California, Nebraska, Arkansas and South Carolina failed to check for fetal heartbeats or discharged patients who were in active labor, leaving them to deliver at home or in ambulances, according to the documents.

Nursing and doctor shortages, trouble staffing ultrasounds around-the-clock and new abortion laws are making the emergency room a dangerous place for pregnant women, warned Dara Kass, an emergency medicine doctor and former U.S. Health and Human Services official.

“It is increasingly less safe to be pregnant and seeking emergency care in an emergency department,” she said.

[spookysalem13]

PayPal Donation Link For Nola's Surgery

On Sunday my pug Nola aka Count DracNOLA had to be taken to the Emergency Vet.

Her uterus became infected and she was blowing up like a balloon and leaking infected puss. She was going to turn septic without a complete hysterectomy.

The first ER vet we took her to was more concerned with an immediate pay day than treating the animals with any kind of kindness, respect or humanity.

They tied a slip leash around my sick baby and dragged her. She's a pug. Pugs can only be walked on a harness. Not even a collar because of their breathing and a collar being tugged cuts off their airway.

They wouldn't pick her up. Why? I don't know. She's a small dog. She's sick. Picking her up should have been their immediate response. But instead they slipped a knot around her neck that got tighter as she moved. Nola couldn't breathe. She was choking and being dragged until she gave in and followed because she couldn't breathe. She was literally coughing and they did nothing but pull harder on her tightening the closure around her neck.

I was so upset. But I knew she was sick and she needed to be treated. She was back there for 5 hours. They wouldn't let me see her.

They told me I needed to pay $8,500 to have my baby's surgery done or she'd go septic and wouldn't make it.

I said I don't have the money. They said they don't do financing so I could take out a care credit but be warned I'd be paying high interest. I said I didn't care I needed to save Nola.

But despite my good credit, I have low income. I'm disabled and I can only work 24 hours a week. So I don't make much money. I qualified for $4,100 as a care credit loan. I was in tears I was shaking. I asked them what do I do. I don't have the money. They said take her to the humane society but she won't get proper care there. Making me feel guilty for needing to choose that option in the first place.

But I didn't have a choice. Then only to find out the humane society was closed until Tuesday and Nola didn't have that much time.

They said they couldn't change the prices. Prices were final. But they contacted another ER vet. Only to find out that this vet heard about Nola and changed their prices for her.

So this new vet is where Nola had her surgery that night. The first vet still charged us $220 just to see Nola in the first place. But the second vet was different from the moment we walked in the door.

They immediately picked her up and petted her, gave her love and attention. Took her back to be examined by the surgeon instantly. I didn't have to wait hours like before.

They brought the pricing to me about Nola's surgery and at maximum it was going to be $4300. We agreed and Nola was taken the best care of. They were so kind and sweet to her. Her surgery went beautifully. Everyone treated her so lovely. Even the technician fell for her. He was obsessed.

I went to pick her up the next day and the total was $3,600. Even less than what I was expecting. I will be paying it off for the next 12 months. But my Nola is okay and she was taken care of by people who genuinely cared about their profession and not only about making the most money.

She will be in recovery at home for four weeks. She's doing okay now. She's finally eating again. She's stubborn about her medicine but she's doing well.

And the important thing is my baby is still here.

If you'd like to help donate to helping a low income disabled creator like myself with paying for my Nola's surgery. Tips or the PayPal donation link at the top and bottom of this post are linked. Anything is appreciated, only if you can. But just sending love to Nola is truly appreciated.

I've been so scared and worried. I'm just so incredibly thankful she's okay.

PayPal Donation Link

[killed-by-choice]

“Phyllis Roe” (USA 1970–1972)

A study published in the Obstetrics and Gynecology medical journal documented 10 cases of maternal death from legal saline abortions in New York City. All of the women in the study had undergone their abortions thanks to New York’s pre-Roe legalization and had died between July 1, 1970 and June 30, 1972.

While nine of the cases appear to match some of those documented in another study, the person who was given the designation “Case 3” did not appear to match any known report. (She is given a pseudonym here to avoid dehumanizing her by reducing her to a number.) In addition, her postmortem findings were found to be suspicious considering the listed cause of death.

“Phyllis” underwent her saline abortion at approximately 18 weeks pregnant. The hazardous method was performed by a New York City hospital, apparently as an outpatient procedure. After receiving the hypertonic saline injections, she was discharged.

The next day, Phyllis returned to the hospital with a fever of 104 degrees. After delivering her dead child, she continued to bleed. Vacuum aspiration was performed and the hospital began treating her for septic shock and abnormally decreased urine output.

Even though she had been healthy with no history of serious illness, Phyllis died in three days. Her postmortem report showed peculiar results which may cast doubt on whether or not her complications had been diagnosed and treated correctly.

Even though Phyllis’s diagnosis during her hospitalization had been septic shock, her blood cultures showed no growth at all. Cervical cultures were reported to have grown “multiple organisms,” but did not list what organisms, whether or not they were infectious or which species were likely to have caused her death. Her uterus, which would most likely have been the site of initial infection, had “no gross evidence of infection” and there was a note that “microscopic preparations were not available”.

Phyllis had both air and fluid in her pleural space. She had been suffering from generalized tissue edema which was stated as “being suggestive of fluid overloading.” Despite all of these findings (and in some cases lack of them), her cause of death was still given as sepsis.

The study that later recorded Phyllis’s death regarded the autopsy findings with some degree of skepticism. While the study listed the diagnosis of sepsis as her cause of death, the authors wrote that “the description of [her] uterus must be considered as questionable.”

Analysis

What really happened to Phyllis? While at this point it may be impossible to know for sure, there are several possible explanations for the suspicious postmortem findings. One is that she really did die of sepsis, but that the lab work was mishandled. If, as the study noted, the description of her uterus was questionable, it could be possible that it was simply poorly examined.

Another possibility is that Phyllis was misdiagnosed and that the hospital decided to list her cause of death as a match for her initial diagnosis to avoid suspicion of malpractice. That may explain why important microscopic preparations were reportedly “unavailable.”

The findings of the autopsy may also indicate that Phyllis may have suffered another complication from saline abortion: hypervolemic hypernatremia. Hypernatremia, an electrolyte imbalance from dangerous levels of salt in the body, had already been well-established to have killed saline abortion clients by the time Phyllis was killed. If this had been the case for her, it could have caused hypervolemia as her body desperately tried to hold onto fluids to regulate her osmotic levels. This is highly consistent with the observations of generalized edema and fluid overloading and could also have explained her abnormalities in urine output. She also suffered disseminated intravascular coagulopathy or DIC, a well-documented symptom in many abortion deaths involving saline in the bloodstream.

(Considering that the same hospital had been responsible for the abortion and for treatment during Phyllis’s last days of life, there is a possibility that they would have an additional incentive to give her cause of death as sepsis. While still avoidable, sepsis could also have happened after birth, stillbirth or miscarriage, making a death from abortion-related sepsis seem more of an “acceptable” risk to some. However, death by hypernatremia after a massive dose of hypertonic saline in the bloodstream would not have occurred naturally for any of these, making her death without a doubt the result of the hospital’s actions.)

Yet another possibility combines some of the others: that the diagnosis of sepsis was correct and that Phyllis was suffering from undiagnosed hypernatremia. A study conducted decades after her death found correlations between hypernatremia and risk of developing sepsis. Both sepsis and hypernatremia can also cause similar problems such as kidney dysfunction, so it is possible that Phyllis died of a combination of complications. Her DIC could be explained by saline in the bloodstream, sepsis or both.

At this point it may not be possible to know for sure which exact complications killed Phyllis. What was never in doubt, however, is that she and her baby were two more preventable deaths from pre-Roe legalized abortion in New York City.

(All above images are from the study)

[thevettechstudent]

WEEK 13:

A 10-year-old FS poodle mix came in for a staple removal.

She received these stitches from a procedure at another hospital:

At VEG (Veterinary Emergency Group [Hospital]), she presented with a pyometra, which is an infection in the uterus.

The uterus fills with pus and bacteria.

Pyometra cases occur in female dogs that are not spayed and can present with different signs.

Some signs include purulent discharge from the vagina and increased drinking.

A pyometra case can be “open” or “closed” referring to the cervix.

If the cervix is “open” the discharge drains from the uterus to the vagina to the outside of the body.

If it is “closed” bacteria can be trapped inside of the uterus.

Her bacterial infection was so severe that she almost became septic, which I can assume that she had a “closed” pyometra.

At VEG, they saw an increased amount neutrophils (about 40,000) with toxic change, which indicates infection. (The normal amount of neutrophils ranges from 3,000 to 12,000)

She had an OVH (ovariohysterectomy) immediately.

For more reference on pyometras: Pyometra in dogs: VCA Animal Hospitals. Vca. (n.d.). https://vcahospitals.com/know-your-pet/pyometra-in-dogs

[ladybloging]

hi!!! if you’re reading this post you’re likely coming from my fic Wounding Remedies.

details of my late posting below 👇

im usually a very down-low person, i keep my private life super private, but i wanted to vent just a wee bit.

this week has been EXHAUSTING

last saturday i began getting sick, just a little dry feeling in my sinuses, whatever, but then over the next few days it became an aggressive throat sick and still today (friday) i’m fighting off congestion. but still, it’s whatever really. i prefer throat sickness over any other kind of sick.

on wednesday my wife began cramping, somewhere in the lower abdomen. she tried explaining it, and i just kept saying “take some excedrin” “take gas x” “drink more water” “use a heating pad” because we managed to pinpoint the pain in or around the uterus.

eventually we decided to take her to the ER (where we are now) because the pain became so unbearable that she’s been throwing up and running cold, so as to make sure she’s not going septic. finally we got here, she was given some pain meds into her bloodstream as well as nausea medication. she’s been taken back for imaging, and the lady asked “have you been told you have fibroids?”

fibroids typically don’t need alarm, unless they’re accompanied by excessive pain ✅ excessive bleeding ✅ or growing rapidly ❓

if they’re causing pain, they’re growing right?

doctor came in and said all of her tests were great, and there’s really no reason why she should be in any pain. the fibroids don’t usually cause any pain either. he said that she needs to see an obgyn asap, and that’s all the answers we get. we also got some naproxen.

unfortunately she’s still in pain.

so i’ve decided that i’m going to take a couple weeks off posting, hoping to get chapter 22 up on December 18th :) thank y’all for being patient with me!!