{"id":295840,"date":"2023-08-04T10:38:21","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T15:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=295840"},"modified":"2023-08-03T15:32:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T20:32:25","slug":"vp-harris-perpetuates-idea-miscarriage-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/vp-harris-perpetuates-idea-miscarriage-management\/","title":{"rendered":"VP Kamala Harris perpetuates idea that women can’t get miscarriage care without abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vice President Kamala Harris spoke<\/a> with ABC News Live Prime anchor Linsey Davis recently, during which time she discussed her hope that Americans will work to ensure abortion becomes fully legal throughout pregnancy in every state.<\/p>\n

To validate her unwavering support for abortion on demand, Harris shared the story of a woman who claims she was denied medical care for a miscarriage due to pro-life laws that have been enacted.<\/p>\n

“She went to the emergency room while she was having a miscarriage, denied care,” said Harris. “She went back, denied care. Only when she contracted sepsis did they give her care. So this is what’s happening in real time in our country.”<\/p>\n

Harris added, “I think on this issue, it is critically important that we understand this is not some intellectual debate. Every day in America, there are people suffering, silently suffering in many cases.”<\/p>\n

The case in question<\/strong><\/p>\n

Harris was likely alluding to the story of Amanda Zurawski<\/a>, who, according to People Magazine<\/a>, “was dilating prematurely due to an incompetent cervix” and was told that “miscarriage was inevitable.” Doctors in her state of Texas erroneously claimed there was nothing they could do for her and her baby, and they waited until she was suffering from sepsis before performing a “premature delivery” of her child \u2014 a completely legal medical procedure, not<\/em> an induced abortion. No pro-life law prohibits an induced preterm delivery that is carried out for medical situations like Zurawski’s and which do not intentionally cause the death of the child. The doctors’ failure to treat Zurawski may amount to medical neglect, if no medications or monitoring of any kind were provided to her.<\/p>\n

Again, no pro-life laws prohibit proper medical treatment for miscarriage management. Still, pro-abortion narratives are confusing women on what constitutes an induced abortion by conflating miscarriage treatment and induced abortion.<\/p>\n

Miscarriage treatment is not an abortion<\/strong><\/p>\n

One woman recently shared her miscarriage story, saying that she underwent a D&C (dilation and curettage) abortion as a treatment. She said, “There was no heartbeat to be heard” and claimed that the “abortion saved my life.” But there’s a problem here \u2014 removing an already deceased child from her uterus is not an induced abortion<\/em>. Though the procedure \u2014 a D&C \u2014 is the same, when done for a miscarriage, it is not a procedure done to end a child’s life, but to remove the remains of a child that has already died.<\/p>\n