{"id":290605,"date":"2023-05-09T12:43:11","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T17:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=290605"},"modified":"2023-05-10T18:26:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T23:26:30","slug":"obgyn-pro-life-laws-risk-misunderstanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/obgyn-pro-life-laws-risk-misunderstanding\/","title":{"rendered":"OB\/GYN testifies that pro-life state laws don’t put women at risk. Misunderstanding them does."},"content":{"rendered":"
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In order to score points against pro-life laws, abortion activists and the mainstream media are constantly exploiting some pregnant women\u2019s bad medical experiences in pro-life states. However, during a recent Senate hearing, one pro-life OB\/GYN from the state of Texas sought to dispel common misperceptions at the heart of these tragic cases.<\/p>\n

Appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week to blast the state\u2019s pro-life protections, Amanda Zurawski is suing the state of Texas for what she claims is serious bodily damage caused by the state\u2019s heartbeat law. Amanda was 18 weeks pregnant with her baby when she experienced preterm premature rupture of the membranes (PPROM) from an incompetent cervix that would not stay closed, and she was in early labor.<\/p>\n

Based on Zurawski\u2019s recounting of what followed, her doctors narrowed in on a single course of treatment \u2013 abortion \u2013 which they then refused, citing the Texas heartbeat law as preventing them from acting. Without any other options or supportive measures, they told her that her baby\u2019s death was an inevitability and sent her home.<\/p>\n

During the Senate hearing, Dr. Ingrid Skop, a practicing OB\/GYN and vice president of the pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute<\/a>, was called on by Senator Lindsay Graham to discuss Zurawski\u2019s case. In her testimony<\/a>, Dr. Skop started by expressing her empathy for Zurawski\u2019s horrific experience. \u201cI am so sorry at your loss, and I am so sorry that your doctors misunderstood Texas law,\u201d Dr. Skop said,\u00a0according to CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dr. Skop then addressed the heart of the problem common to tragic cases like Zurawski\u2019s; namely, a misunderstanding of the law. \u201cEvery single law allows an exclusion for a doctor to use their reasonable medical judgment to determine when to intervene in a medical emergency, which is usually defined as a threat to the life of the mother or permanent irreversible damage to an organ or an organ system.\u201d (Comments in the video below begin at 52:36<\/strong>.)<\/p>\n