Jessica Valenti: Abortion, Every Day (11.17.22) Daily round-up of abortion issues

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A woman went to a crisis pregnancy center for a free ultrasound where they gave her false information about her pregnancy & didn't refer her for the urgent care she needed.

She ended up in the ER with a severe hemorrhage a week later.

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Abortion, Every Day (11.17.22)
Woman ends up in ER after getting false info from crisis pregnancy center
2:00 PM · Nov 17, 2022

https://jessica.substack.com/p/abortion-every-day-111722#details

In the states…

For months, I’ve been warning how conservatives are laying the groundwork to blame doctors for when the first woman dies because of an abortion ban. Now they’re creating a paper trail to do just that. After a Washington, DC woman went to the press about being denied miscarriage treatment in an Ohio hospital, an anti-abortion organization in the state has gone on offense: Ohio Right to Life has filed a complaint with the state medical board over the woman’s story. Elizabeth Whitmarsh, who is the anti-choice organization’s director of communications, claims in the complaint that the abortion ban doesn’t prevent doctors from giving patients adequate care. As Kellie Copeland with ProChoice Ohio said, “They are not filing this complaint out of concern for her. They are filing this complaint to cover up the fact that they are culpable with what happened.”

But wait, there’s more: When Whitmarsh’s complaint goes to the state’s medical board, guess who will be receiving it? Her boss. That’s right: The president of Ohio Right to Life, Mike Gonidakis, sits on the state’s medical board. What the ever-loving fuck.

Also in Ohio, where the state’s 6-week abortion ban is currently blocked, State Rep. Casey Weinstein warns that Republicans might try to pass an abortion ban and move it quickly through the lame duck session: “There’s a chance that it could happen very quickly without giving us a significant opportunity to push back.”

Meanwhile, crisis pregnancy centers are putting women’s lives in danger—and not just in anti-abortion states. The Boston Globe reports that an OBGYN at University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center recently treated a woman in the ER who had visited a crisis pregnancy center because they offered a free ultrasound. But crisis pregnancy center workers aren’t medical professionals—and often give false information to convince women not to get abortions. That’s happened in this case: The patient was given inaccurate information about her pregnancy, wasn’t referred for emergency treatment as she should have been, and ended up with a severe hemorrhage that sent her to the emergency room a week later.

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