{"id":209165,"date":"2019-08-27T13:37:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T18:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=209165"},"modified":"2019-08-26T00:52:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T05:52:53","slug":"doctor-didnt-identify-condition-abort-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/doctor-didnt-identify-condition-abort-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanya’s doctor didn’t identify her condition but told her she had to abort. He was wrong."},"content":{"rendered":"
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On the blog \u201cWe Defend Life,\u201d a pregnant woman named Tanya Beck shared her story<\/a> of being pressured to have an abortion due to a medical condition she developed during pregnancy. When Beck was 16 weeks pregnant, her doctor informed her that her kidneys were not functioning properly. They were swollen with urine that was backed up in her system. The doctor told Beck her kidneys would only get worse as the pregnancy progressed, and said she had to abort her baby. According to Beck, the doctor did not even tell her the name for the condition with which she was diagnosed. The doctor also suggested no alternative treatment other than abortion<\/a>. Beck refused to abort her son, and was sent home from the doctor\u2019s office with no follow-up or treatment.<\/p>\n

When Beck did her own research later, she discovered the name of her condition: hydronephrosis. She also learned that there was, in fact, treatment for the condition that did not include abortion, despite what the doctor told her. In fact, there were three other options<\/em> -\u2013 a stent could be placed, a nephrostomy tube (which is like a catheter) could be inserted in the kidneys, and, if all else failed, a kidney could be removed. None of these options were shared with Beck. She had not been informed of any of them; she was simply told to abort.<\/p>\n

READ: Women pressured to abort at Planned Parenthood to meet abortion \u2018quota\u2019<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Despite what her doctor said, abortion is actually never medically necessary, as former abortionist and OB\/GYN Dr. Anthony Levatino explains in the video below. In the case of a true emergency, particularly in the second or third trimester, the baby would be induced or delivered via a c-section — both procedures that take just hours. In a life-and-death situation, no doctor would wait the multiple days<\/em> it takes to complete a late-term abortion.<\/p>\n