{"id":322807,"date":"2024-12-20T14:52:42","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T20:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=322807"},"modified":"2024-12-21T01:59:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T07:59:08","slug":"fact-check-omitting-facts-likening-miscarriage-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/fact-check-omitting-facts-likening-miscarriage-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Media deceives by omitting facts, and by likening miscarriage to abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The latest pro-abortion article<\/a> in a series from States Newsroom attempts to blame the alleged denial of a Florida woman’s miscarriage treatment on Louisiana’s pro-life law. The article, in typical hit piece fashion, avoids discussing the actual pro-life law in question<\/em> while repeating the pro-abortion lies that have been perpetuated by media in recent months.<\/p>\n

This newest effort to vilify pro-life laws concerns the tragic loss of a child in the womb at 10 weeks. The baby had not been growing properly, and the mother, Tabitha Crowe, was worried she was going to lose her child. At 10 weeks, her baby had only grown to about the size of a six-week-old embryo.<\/p>\n

At a Glance:<\/h3>\n
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  • A woman believes a hospital in Louisiana would not perform a D&C to complete her miscarriage due to the state’s pro-life law, though the hospital gave her misoprostol (sometimes used as an abortoin drug) to complete her miscarriage instead.<\/li>\n
  • Louisiana’s pro-life law specifically states that the removal of a deceased child after a miscarriage is not considered an abortion and is legal.<\/li>\n
  • The media’s reporting refers misleadingly to miscarriage treatments as “terminations” while also referring to induced abortions (which intentionally end the lives of preborn children) as “terminations.”<\/li>\n
  • The media’s conflation of miscarriage and abortion is deceiving the public rather than educating the public.<\/li>\n
  • Media stories discussing the “preventable deaths” of pregnant women are also misleading the public into believing that women are dying because of the laws in pro-life states; in reality, 80% of all pregnancy-related deaths in the U.S. are labeled “preventable,” and some pro-abortion states have even higher percentages of pregnancy-related deaths than pro-life ones.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    A tragic loss of life<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Crowe lives in Florida, but was visiting her parents in Louisiana when she began to experience signs of a miscarriage.<\/p>\n

    She went to LSU Health Lallie Kemp Medical Center in Independence, Louisiana, on August 8. She was heavily bleeding, passing clots, and in pain \u2014 all common for miscarriage. Though States Newsroom does not mention if her baby had a heartbeat, doctors sent her home to complete the miscarriage. This is the “expectant management” approach to miscarriage, which can take up to eight weeks, according to the Mayo Clinic<\/a>. Mayo recommends expectant management for miscarriage if there are no symptoms of infection<\/em>. If the miscarriage does not<\/em> complete, the Mayo Clinic recommends “medicines or surgery” to help.<\/p>\n

    Two days after returning to her parents’ home, Crowe woke up screaming and crying in extreme pain. She went back to Lallie Kemp, where doctors transferred her to St. Tammany Parish Hospital Emergency Department in Covington, Louisiana, because it was the closest hospital with an OB\/GYN unit.<\/p>\n

    Dr. Matloob Rehman, Lallie Kemp’s medical director, told States Newsroom, “Lallie Kemp is a small, rural hospital without a full complement of specialists, including obstetrical surgery. If a patient is in need of such care, it is Lallie Kemp’s practice to refer or transfer the patient to a hospital that can provide such services.”<\/p>\n

    While at St. Tammany, Crowe received pain medication and ultrasounds, and was cleared of blood clots. She was also (allegedly unbeknownst to her) administered misoprostol, a drug used to treat miscarriage that is also the second drug of the two-drug abortion pill regimen.<\/p>\n

    Research published by the American Academy of Family Physicians states that 80% to 99%<\/a> of women given misoprostol are able to complete a miscarriage. According to the Mayo Clinic, adding mifepristone would have made the treatment more effective, but mifepristone can only be dispensed under the supervision of a prescriber certified by its manufacturer (Danco), and it is unclear if St. Tammany or any of its physicians are certified prescribers. While at St. Tammany, Crowe asked staff for a D&C \u2014 a surgical procedure used to complete an early miscarriage when the administration of drugs or other treatments fail. She did not receive one.<\/p>\n

    A D&C or suction D&C may also be used to intentionally kill preborn children in first-trimester abortions; however, treating the miscarriage of an already-deceased preborn child and intentionally killing a preborn child are entirely different. And in Louisiana, only procedures intended to end the life<\/em> of a living preborn human are against the law.<\/p>\n

    \u201cThey did ultrasounds and all that, but they didn\u2019t help make sure that the miscarriage was completing,\u201d Crowe said. \u201cWe kept telling them, \u2018Hey, can y\u2019all just do this D&C, so like, we can be done with this pain?\u2019 They wouldn\u2019t answer.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Her sister said that she “had a sense” the doctors wouldn’t give Crowe a D&C because of the state’s pro-life law (which, incidentally, specifically states that miscarriage treatment is allowed and is not considered an abortion<\/em>).<\/p>\n

    \u201cI had a sense it was because of the abortion laws, because by the time they did the canal sweep of blood clots, they didn\u2019t even want to listen that I was in pain anymore. They were like, brushing it off, like, you\u2019ll be fine,\u201d Crowe said. \u201cEven if them not doing it was wasn\u2019t because of the abortion laws, I still didn\u2019t get the treatment that I needed.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Crowe admits that the hospital’s reasoning may not have been the state’s pro-life law, and despite not being given her requested D&C, Crowe was<\/em> given misoprostol \u2014 which may also be used as an abortion drug.<\/p>\n

    A hospital worried about breaking a pro-life law by performing a D&C should be just as worried to administer a drug used in the abortion pill regimen \u2014 and therefore, since Crowe received misoprostol, it seems that the reasoning of staff in this case (choosing not to perform a D&C) had nothing to do with a pro-life state law.<\/p>\n

    There are<\/em> risks with a D&C, including infection and injury to internal organs; perhaps this played a part in the hospital’s decision, but most doctors will provide a woman with the treatment she prefers (expectant management, medication, or surgery) after providing her with all of the benefits and risks of each. The staff’s reasoning is unknown.<\/p>\n

    States Newsroom said it obtained Crowe’s medical records, which indicate that the miscarriage was completed<\/em> at St. Tammany.<\/p>\n

    However, Crowe and her husband returned to their home state of Florida, where they went to the emergency room on Eglin Air Force Base where she said she was given a D&C. States Newsroom argued that because the emergency room was on the base under “federal jurisdiction,” Crowe could have the D&C she wanted because abortion is allowed.<\/p>\n

    But according to the Department of Veteran Affairs, abortions are allowed at its hospitals only<\/em> for cases of rape, incest, and to save the life of the mother \u2014 which would mean that Crowe’s D&C was done for the purpose of miscarriage, not abortion. That hospital did not respond to States Newsroom’s request for comment.<\/p>\n

    When the media refuses to clearly articulate the simple difference between accidental death (miscarriage) and abortion (intentional killing), they mislead the public. This isn’t journalism; it’s the promotion of a certain agenda through the dissemination of lies.<\/p>\n