{"id":287861,"date":"2023-03-23T08:34:30","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T13:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=287861"},"modified":"2023-03-27T13:11:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T18:11:47","slug":"obgyn-malpractice-history-angers-miscarriage-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/obgyn-malpractice-history-angers-miscarriage-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"OB\/GYN with history of malpractice angers Twitter users by equating miscarriage to abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OB\/GYN Kristin Lyerly tweeted a claim that miscarriage is the same as abortion. She says doctors who use the word &#8220;miscarriage&#8221; instead of \u201cabortion\u201d when talking with women who\u2019ve lost a baby are &#8220;sheltering&#8221; them from the truth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The reason doctors do this, she says, is because politicians (presumably pro-life) have made the word abortion &#8220;unspeakable.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She wrote, &#8220;If you&#8217;ve had a miscarriage, you have had an abortion. The medical term for a miscarriage is &#8216;spontaneous abortion&#8217;. Your doctors have likely sheltered you from this terminology, rendered unspeakable by politicians with the intention of shaming and disempowering you.&#8221; She then added in a second tweet, &#8220;It&#8217;s time that call it what it is and recognize that up to 50% of pregnancies end in spontaneous abortions.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-287867\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/kristin-lyerly-tweet-685x700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/kristin-lyerly-tweet-685x700.jpg 685w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/kristin-lyerly-tweet-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/kristin-lyerly-tweet-768x785.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/kristin-lyerly-tweet-500x511.jpg 500w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/kristin-lyerly-tweet.jpg 1190w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Setting aside Lyerly\u2019s questionable statistic, her Tweet upset and offended many people. Some responded, calling her language &#8220;disingenuous,&#8221; &#8220;semantic games that wound people,&#8221; and &#8220;gaslighting.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-287869\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/tweet-responses-lyerly-1-700x602.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/tweet-responses-lyerly-1-700x602.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/tweet-responses-lyerly-1-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/tweet-responses-lyerly-1-768x660.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/tweet-responses-lyerly-1-500x430.jpg 500w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/tweet-responses-lyerly-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-287870\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/tweet-responses-lyerly-2-700x329.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/tweet-responses-lyerly-2-700x329.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/tweet-responses-lyerly-2-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/tweet-responses-lyerly-2-768x361.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/tweet-responses-lyerly-2-500x235.jpg 500w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/tweet-responses-lyerly-2.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-287871\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/responses-tweet-lyerly-3-700x222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/responses-tweet-lyerly-3-700x222.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/responses-tweet-lyerly-3-300x95.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/responses-tweet-lyerly-3-768x244.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/responses-tweet-lyerly-3-500x159.jpg 500w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/responses-tweet-lyerly-3.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many parents who lost a child through miscarriage commented on how hurtful Lyerly&#8217;s tweet was:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-287872\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/miscarriage-lyerly-1-700x565.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/miscarriage-lyerly-1-700x565.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/miscarriage-lyerly-1-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/miscarriage-lyerly-1-768x620.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/miscarriage-lyerly-1-500x404.jpg 500w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/miscarriage-lyerly-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-287873\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/miscarriage-2-lyerly-700x574.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/miscarriage-2-lyerly-700x574.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/miscarriage-2-lyerly-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/miscarriage-2-lyerly-768x630.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/miscarriage-2-lyerly-500x410.jpg 500w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/miscarriage-2-lyerly.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-287874\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/miscarriage-lyerly-3-700x425.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/miscarriage-lyerly-3-700x425.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/miscarriage-lyerly-3-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/miscarriage-lyerly-3-768x467.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/miscarriage-lyerly-3-500x304.jpg 500w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/miscarriage-lyerly-3.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-287875\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/miscarriage-lyerly-4-700x527.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/miscarriage-lyerly-4-700x527.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/miscarriage-lyerly-4-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/miscarriage-lyerly-4-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/miscarriage-lyerly-4.jpg 800w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/miscarriage-lyerly-4-500x376.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One medical provider spoke up, explaining why doctors and medical workers don\u2019t use the term \u201cabortion\u201d when caring for a patient who just lost a baby:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-287877\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/medical-provider-lyerly-700x174.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"503\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/medical-provider-lyerly-700x174.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/medical-provider-lyerly-300x75.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/medical-provider-lyerly-768x191.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/medical-provider-lyerly-500x124.jpg 500w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/medical-provider-lyerly.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even a pro-abortion person spoke out:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-287878\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/proabortion-person-lyerly-700x166.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"502\" height=\"119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/proabortion-person-lyerly-700x166.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/proabortion-person-lyerly-300x71.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/proabortion-person-lyerly-768x182.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/proabortion-person-lyerly-500x119.jpg 500w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/proabortion-person-lyerly.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One woman who suffered a miscarriage described how traumatic it was and how the label \u201cabortion\u201d added to her trauma.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This woman, her name withheld, got pregnant unexpectedly, but considered it \u201ca happy surprise.\u201d During her first ultrasound, when she was 9 to 10 weeks pregnant, the ultrasound technician couldn\u2019t find a heartbeat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The doctor told her her baby had died. She says, \u201c[T]he next couple hours were a blur. I went home and didn\u2019t want to talk about it. No one knew about the pregnancy I was grieving. I went on like nothing happened, but on the inside I was sad.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The doctor said she could wait and see if the baby would pass out of her body naturally, but that waiting could lead to complications. She could have heavy bleeding, or the baby could fail to pass. Under the doctor\u2019s recommendation, she entered the hospital and had a D&amp;C.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She says:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A few weeks later, I got the bills from the hospital. [They said ] Spontaneous Abortion! It was hurtful. Like rubbing salt in my wound! I did not choose to end my child\u2019s life! Isn\u2019t that the definition of Abortion!? When you choose to end the life growing inside of you. This was not my choice! I was grieving the loss of my child and they had the audacity to label it as an Abortion!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The woman had used drugs in the past to cope with emotional pain but had been sober for six years. Fortunately, she says, she had the tools and support to prevent her from falling back into her addiction. But she says that if ever there was a time to relapse, this was it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She further says:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Opening your bill from the hospital after loosing [sic] your child to a miscarriage, labeled as an Abortion and the DNC [sic] procedure and hospital stay cost is the same as if I had given live birth. But I had no baby to show for my medical bills. Only loss and sorrow.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was a full year of silence before I spoke about my loss. The pain was just too much to know where to begin.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/walgreens-cvs-petition\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-283198\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--700x180.jpg\" alt=\"Walgreens CVS banner\" width=\"700\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--700x180.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--300x77.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--768x197.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--500x128.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Incidentally, Dr. Kristin Lyerly has a history of malpractice. According to a citation from the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice, she botched a delivery in December 2008 by failing to properly monitor a woman in labor and delaying a C-section when the baby was in distress. She was disciplined by the board and accused of \u201csubstandard or inadequate care\u201d because she \u201cfailed to timely deliver an infant.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthgrades.com\/media\/english\/pdf\/sanctions\/HGPYGDQGF03142020.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">report found<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[The] respondent failed to recognize the concerning risk profile of a pregnant patient, failed to abide by the recommendations of a maternal fetal medicine consultant, failed to act on the infant\u2019s concerning category 2 fetal heart rate tracing over multiple hours and then, failed to urgently respond to a category 3 fetal heart rate tracing.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/jfmo.cchs.ua.edu\/files\/2014\/04\/REVIEW-OF-CATEGORY-I-II-and-III.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a medical study<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Category 2 fetal heart tracings \u201crequire closer supervision, more frequent evaluation, documentation and correction of abnormalities by conservative management and intrauterine resuscitation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regarding category three tracings, the study says, \u201c[T]hese tracings have been associated with adverse neurologic abnormalities\u2026 When intrauterine resuscitation of these abnormalities fails, delivery should be expedient.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists,<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mnhospitals.org\/Portals\/0\/Documents\/patientsafety\/Perinatal\/3a_ACOG%20Bulletin%20106.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in its guidelines<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, gives the following instructions for dealing with category 3 fetal heart tracings:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Category III FHR [fetal heart rate] tracings require prompt evaluation. Depending on the clinical situation, efforts to expeditiously resolve the abnormal FHR may include\u2026provision of maternal oxygen, change in maternal position, discontinuation of labor stimulation, treatment of maternal hypotension, and treatment of tachysystole with FHR changes.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The citation against Lyerly from the board also said, \u201cLate decelerations were present on the fetal heart tracing for about 30 minutes before Respondent decided to perform a cesarean section delivery.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Very Well Health gives information on late decelerations:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[L]ate decelerations (a drop in the fetal heart rate after uterine contractions) are caused by a decrease in the placental blood flow. This results in insufficient oxygen supply to the fetus (uteroplacental insufficiency).<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Babies who experience late decelerations and are not delivered promptly<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icliniq.com\/articles\/pregnancy-and-trying-to-conceive\/late-decelerations#what-are-some-of-the-possible-complications-of-late-deceleration\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">can develop cerebral palsy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, or a condition called neonatal encephalopathy,<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/34305025\/#:~:text=Neonatal%20Encephalopathy%20(NE)%20is%20a,neonatal%20seizures%20in%20varying%20combinations\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">which can cause<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">depressed consciousness, difficulty initiating and maintaining respiration, and often abnormal tone, reflexes and neonatal seizures in varying combinations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a condition that can lead to death or severe disability.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The report doesn\u2019t say what happened to the infant in this case. We don\u2019t know if the baby died or developed any of these health problems. It is likely there were some adverse effects for the child due to delayed action from\u00a0<\/span>Dr. Lyerly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/give.liveaction.org\/general-donation\/?utm_source=lan&amp;utm_medium=display&amp;utm_campaign=monthly&amp;utm_content=article\"><i>Did you know that as little as $10 a month is enough to reach more than 3,000 people with the truth about abortion that no one else is telling them? Click here to start saving lives 365 days a year.<\/i><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OB\/GYN Kristin Lyerly tweeted a claim that miscarriage is the same as abortion. She says doctors who use the word &#8220;miscarriage&#8221; instead of \u201cabortion\u201d when talking with women who\u2019ve lost a baby are &#8220;sheltering&#8221; them from the truth.\u00a0 The reason doctors do this, she says, is because politicians (presumably pro-life) have made the word abortion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":210591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[15,9459],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>OB\/GYN with history of malpractice angers Twitter users by equating miscarriage to abortion<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;Your doctors have likely sheltered you from this terminology, rendered unspeakable by politicians with the intention of shaming and disempowering you.&quot;\" 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