She has to carry this baby t term, which is at least 37 weeks. now, there is no doctor willin to terminate this pregnanc because of the laws that are here and the concern that th government can come after physician. without any other feasibl options, debra was forced to carry the pregnancy to term, delivering the baby who died shortly after birth. debra joins us now, along with her husband, lee also is this, devers primary care physician who you saw i that video, doctored david never. thank you all for joining us debra, i know this is very har and i appreciate your helpin us understand the situations and sharing your story with us i d like you to bring us back, if you could, to the decisio to terminate can you explain why that mad the most sense, given your
For us we reached out to the hospital that you went to for response we didn t hear back, but a spokesman for the lake whe regional health hospital system, the doctors are affiliated with, they provide a statement to th washington post when it reache out for comment. they declined to discuss deborah s case specifically, o how it is the new law. the spokesman s statement reads, in part, lakeland regional health complies with all law in the state of florida an they do. dr. burger, i don t even kno how you helped a patient in situation like this when you cannot actually gives the woma the harris care she needs. you spoke out on social media, what do people need to kno about terminating a pregnanc and all the differen components that go into wh this procedure is necessary fo
To change any of this withou changing the courts first. let s talk about the wa around, the new york times i reporting, quote, the abortion rights group stage constitutions are a critical part of a strategy to overturn bands that have cut off access to abortion in a wide swath of the country. they offer a way aroun gerrymandered state legislator that are pushing stricter laws can you talk a little bit more about this and how it coul apply? yeah, so i live in michigan right? and we just passed the reproductive freedom for all amendment in november. here in michigan we believ that everybody can make thei own decisions about their ow bodies and what is really upsetting and frankly horrifying about a ruling like this one is that they would be overriding the will of millions of voters who came out,, some sitting fo hours in college campuses to say i believe that the peopl facing an unplanned pregnanc
Effects on peoples lives one of a two pill treatmen used to terminate a pregnanc in its first two weeks it has been in circulation for more than two decades. it is a safety record of 99% it is the nation s most common method of abortion a single judge in texas has pu that axis in jeopardy. judge matthew casimir ha suspended food and dru administration s approval of the drug earlier this week giving the government a week t appeal they did, to the court o appeals. that order was then narrowly agreed with by the fifth circuit. so the order was then block by the supreme court. justice samuel alito, went all the way until this upcomin wednesday. that s when the high court wil decide whether to keep mifepristone available while the appeals process continue to play out. 85 years ago, congress passe
Second trimester of pregnanc as she and her husband are preparing for the rival of a baby girl, they ve girl they hoped and prayed for through 1 ruling months of fertility treatment. they were absolutely thrille to start a life or the new baby one day in august, after amand finisher guest list for he baby shower, she started experiencing some unexpected symptoms after being examined, amanda s option - informed her that she ha dilated prematurely due to a condition called cervica insufficiency. her water broke early. doctors told her she would los her baby a devastating but unavoidabl truth. next question became what coul be done to ensure a respectful passing of their baby girl and what could protect amanda from a deadly infection now that he body was an extremel vulnerable state because she lives in texas trapped by the states curren antiabortion legislation, just two days after roe v. wade was overturned, she was told the doctors must wait to intervene until the baby s heart stopped beating or wait until amanda
Reproductive health care i this country and what folk with the capacity for pregnanc in texas are facing we kno that it is just the tip of the iceberg and we will continue t see these cases spread out around the country as th attacks on our health, our rights, our agency, ou autonomy continue. and it is dangerous. it is not jus inconvenient to have to travel where many people traveling is dangerous. the inability t access care in our community i unsafe molly, in a another lawsuit of texas, a man is suing three women under the state wrongful death statute for allegedly helping his no ex-wife obtain abortion pills. what do you make of this lawsuit? this is what they originall wanted with sb8. this idea that you could the
Now you re in a world wher they re going to criminalize women, women will die or women will not get the health care that they need to prevent them from dying it is dangerous to be pregnant in any state that ban abortion if you have a pregnanc complication, you cannot get the care that you need which was amanda s case. or you re forced to leave th state and that is not a good thing to do when you re in the middle of a pregnanc complication not to mention that everyone has the means to do that it makes it really clear tha pregnancy is in danger in an state that has an abortion ban at like texas. and yes, in our complaint, which is 91 pages long, we not only detail the stories of the five women who come forward to texas. we also put in these stories o other people in texas. and in other states. louisiana, alabama, florida, ohio, and more they re having the sam
I think i had fertilized seven embryos. and only two ended up bein that really high quality on implantation day we had and she did implant to embryos and then it was a two week waiting period, to find out if the embryo did implant the two week waiting period is a very big thing in world iv world. it s a lot of you re doing a rain dance while drinkin juice. [laughs] it s all the things! you are doing everything you can think of so that this is a successful implantation. then we get the pregnanc confirmation it was a beautiful morning and a year later i had her i was holding her in my arms i do believe that i wa destined to be a mom
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