{"id":320723,"date":"2024-10-25T14:48:58","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T19:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=320723"},"modified":"2024-10-24T22:54:18","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T03:54:18","slug":"new-york-times-florida-ectopic-treatment-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/new-york-times-florida-ectopic-treatment-doctor\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times claims Florida woman was denied ectopic pregnancy treatment. A doctor weighs in."},"content":{"rendered":"
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A recent op-ed<\/a> in The New York Times claimed that women are paying a “deeply personal price” for state laws that protect innocent preborn children from being killed in the womb. Yet, as many have stated, it isn’t pro-life laws that are causing medical crises \u2014 it’s misleading media outlets and negligent doctors and media outlets, who seem all too eager to peddle misinformation.<\/p>\n

The Times tells the story of Megan Palmese, a pregnant mother of two living in Florida. She had always wanted a large family, said the Times, but had trouble conceiving naturally and used IVF previously. This time, she became pregnant naturally, but it wasn’t all good news for Palmese. She had been diagnosed with breast cancer and was undergoing treatments when she learned she was pregnant. On top of that, the baby had implanted in her C-section scar, meaning the pregnancy was ectopic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Known as a “cesarean-scar pregnancy,” there are serious risks<\/a> involved with this type of ectopic pregnancy, including uterine rupture and hemorrhage. Treatment for ectopic pregnancy is not<\/strong> considered an induced abortion under any pro-life law, including Florida’s. That’s because the purpose of such treatment is to save the mother, not to intentionally kill the child. In such a case, if intervention is not quickly initiated to save the mother, then both<\/em> mother and child are likely to die.<\/p>\n

Yet, Palmese claims that doctors in Florida turned their backs on her in a dire health emergency.<\/p>\n

Times author Mara Gay claimed, “But Florida has a six-week abortion ban and Palmese was six weeks and five days pregnant. Palmese told me in a phone interview her doctor buried his head into his hands. He told her he had reached out to physicians across Florida but none believed they could help, despite the exception in the Florida law for saving the life of the mother. ‘Everybody said the same thing,’ she recalled. ‘Unless there\u2019s no heartbeat, there\u2019s nothing they can do for me.'”<\/p>\n

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