Pro-Life Doctors Debunk Common Myths on Abortion and Women’s Health

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by Laurel Duggan

Two obstetrician-gynecologists (OB-GYNs) debunked some of the popular talking points surrounding abortion and maternal health in interviews with the Daily Caller News Foundation.
 
Corporate media outlets have raised concerns that new abortion restrictions following the overturning of Roe v. Wade will endanger women by preventing doctors from performing life-saving medical interventions. Dr. Christina Francis and Dr. Catherine Stark explained that, as pro-life physicians, they treat ectopic pregnancies and perform other medical interventions that end pregnancies without performing elective abortions.
 
Dr. Christina Francis, an OB-GYN hospitalist, and Dr. Catherine Stark, and OB-GYN who retired from private practice after 25 years and currently works in a pregnancy resource center, explained that, as pro-life physicians, they treat ectopic pregnancies and perform other medical interventions which end pregnancies without performing elective abortions, combatting concerns raised by media outlets that new post-Roe abortion restrictions would prevent doctors from providing life-saving interventions to women.
 
“I take care of women in high and low risk pregnancy situations. I take care of obstetric emergencies, both on the labor and delivery unit and in the emergency room. I take care of ectopic pregnancies. I take care of miscarriages,” Francis told the DCNF.
 
“The only thing I don’t provide my patients that someone who performs abortions would is elective abortions, meaning procedures that are intended to end the life of a fetal patient,” she said.
 
Ectopic Pregnancies
 
Numerous national headlines since the overturning of Roe have stirred fears that doctors will not be permitted to treat ectopic pregnancies, which occur when an embryo implants outside the uterus. Ectopic pregnancies never result in a viable fetus and pose a serious health risk to mothers, including internal bleeding and — in some cases — death, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG).
 


 
In reality, the treatment for ectopic pregnancy is not the same as an abortion, Francis told the DCNF. Ectopic pregnancies are treated with laparoscopic surgery or with the medication methotrexate, according to ACOG.
 
Laparoscopic surgery is done with a small camera inserted through a small abdominal incision, and is often done when an ectopic pregnancy results in a rupture of the fallopian tube, according to ACOG. Methotrexate is used when rupture has not yet occurred to stop the embryo from growing further, ending the pregnancy without surgical intervention, according to ACOG.
 
Planned Parenthood used to state that “treating an ectopic pregnancy isn’t the same thing as getting an abortion” and that “the medical procedures for abortion are not the same as the medical procedures for an ectopic pregnancy,” but that language was removed from its website after the Supreme Court overturned Roe.
 
Treating Potentially Life-Threatening Infections
 
Pro-abortion advocates claim abortion is a vital form of healthcare and that new restrictions are endangering women’s lives.
 


 
Doctors in Texas reportedly delayed medical interventions for 28 women who had their water break early or had other serious complications, with the patients waiting an average of nine days for treatment, according to The New York Times. More than half of those women developed serious infections, bleeding or other issues.
 
Francis denied that Texas’s abortion law would have prevented or delayed treatment for the women described in these incidents. She said that, while training at a Catholic hospital with an institutional ban on abortions, she was able to perform pre-viability deliveries for women who showed signs of infection based on her medical judgement and without delays from management.
 
“If these physicians are holding off until their patients are overwhelmingly septic or are in the ICU, they’re committing medical malpractice,” Francis said. “It is very possible to see signs of a developing infection in a woman before she has full blown sepsis, before she’s in an ICU, and it’s at that point you have to intervene.”
 
“I have read the Texas law and I did not see any uncertainty as to what would be allowed and what wouldn’t,” she said.
 
Equating Elective Abortion With Life-Saving Care
 
Some abortion advocates equate elective abortions with necessary medical procedures that incidentally end a fetal life, obscuring the fact that bans on elective abortions don’t apply to procedures to protect the life of the mother such as pre-viability deliveries which ultimately result in fetal death.
 
“If Indiana Republicans have their way and outlaw abortions, women will die,” Democratic Indiana State Rep Phil GiaQuinta said during a Monday roundtable with Vice President Kamala Harris.
 


 
Stark explained that, while it’s sometimes necessary to separate mother and child before the child can survive outside the womb, that procedure is not an elective abortion since the intent is not the end a fetal life.
 
“The situations where it does come up is if the water breaks early and the mother develops an infection in the uterus, and she has become septic or could become septic, and the only cure for this is to deliver the baby [prematurely]. But I have not encountered any situation where killing the baby before it’s born was necessary,” Stark said.
 
When this happens, Stark said she delivers the baby, comforts the baby and allows the baby to die in the mother’s arms. In contrast, during elective abortions babies are generally dismembered and die before exiting the womb. 

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The left wants to fear monger in order to make sure they always get their way and can live their irresponsible lives. As usual, their entire argument is based on lies. Once again, it boils down to a sick dedication to human sacrifice.

Fake crisis like Global Warming/Climate Change is just one of the false ideas the left uses

August 2, 2022 – Kansas votes to protect abortion rights in state constitution

Kansans secured a huge win for abortion rights in the US on Tuesday night when they voted to continue to protect abortion in the state constitution.

The race was called by a host of US groups like NBC News, the New York Times and Decision Desk HQ.

The move will be seen as huge a loss for the anti-abortion movement and a major win for abortion rights advocates across America, who will see the result as a bellwether for popular opinion.

Kansas – a deeply conservative and usually reliably Republican state – is the first US state to put abortion rights to a vote since the US supreme court ruled to overturn constitutional protections for abortion in late June.

The state will remain a safe haven for abortion in the midwest, as one of the few states in the region where it remains legal to perform the procedure. Many other states have undertaken moves to make abortion largely illegal since June…

“Deeply conservative,” but traditionally conservative—which implies an abiding respect for personal liberty and First Amendment protection in matters of personal conscience.

Greggie poo the government cant grant rights, they are natural. Your lack of understanding is astounding. The government can legislate, and laws passed that are unconstitutional are automatically null and void. The luciferians went too far, murdering infants. Late term abortion is not popular, allowing a baby to die or sending it to a lab to be experimented on by the franken scientists even illegally, must cease.
They sent volunteers to an pro abortion table set up at a concert with photos of aborted children to ask them how much $$ to make that happen, seeing what they were promoting all the people sitting for planned murderhood left.
So hell bent on child sacrifice they want pregnacy support clinics shut down, they vandalize them. When will they turn on OBGYNs? Which are true health providers.
There is nothing healthy about an abortion.
When was the first time PP assisted a woman have a planned child, with fertility assistance?

Democracy at work.

What’s important is the citizens of KANSAS decided this, and not corporate-compromised crooks in the oversized Federal Government.

Glad to see this return to the Constitution.

Local, State, Federal.

That’s the order of our society.

Indeed, kitt, the Left keeps lying their pants off by saying abortion “rights.”

Any society framing pregnancy as a choice between being a poor mom or being a rich career woman is doomed to go extinct.

Oh, look… the system works. The SCOTUS made the correct decision. You were WRONG. I wonder when the fat, gross pigs in the picture imagine they might need an abortion?

Was this part of the “NO” campaign…
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/athena-thorne/2022/08/02/i-hope-you-get-raped-pro-life-teen-reportedly-shoved-punched-by-enraged-abortion-supporter-n1617839

Pro-choice is not pro-abortion. It’s pro-personal conscience and pro-freedom. What a woman decides about continuing or not continuing a pregnancy IS NOT the business of Church or State. Her body is no minister or politician’s property. Individual choice and sovereign control over one’s own body are fundamental American rights.

Many republicans who would not personally choose abortion will defend the right to choose. They will not have the State imposing restrictions upon freedom based on anyone’s religious position. They recognize the threat of authoritarians.

It’s pro-personal conscience and pro-freedom.

Yes. Striking down silly Roe RESTORES personal conscience and our freedoms.

States now decide on this issue, per their citizens.

No Minister of the Woke can now force states to be bypassed in the processes they enjoy per the Constitution.

Individual choice and sovereign control over one’s own body are fundamental American rights.

Yes, but simps like you absolve women of dealing with the consequences.

It takes MORE faith to say a conception isn’t life than it does to believe Moses parted the Red Sea.

Practice your religion on your own time, and leave the rest of us to believe what we want…in this society wholly provided by a Judeo-Christian worldview, which exclusively allows everyone to choose their own beliefs.

The feeble attempt of the Left to make this a “religious” issue is silly, given they are imposing their religious views on the rest of us.

They will not have the State imposing restrictions upon freedom based on anyone’s religious position.

To interfere with the States’s right to pass laws on such a matter is a violation of the Constitution, and punishable as Treason.

Your hackneyed vomit about being pro-life as a religious view is a logical fallacy.

The Left shifts the definition of life to further social engineering and the continued decay of families and children.

Their goal (your goal) is less people, because you’ve drank the Malthus Kool-aid.

Just come out and say it.

Significant numbers of republican voters in Kansas apparently disagree with you. Anti-choice fanatics forced them to choose sides.

Trump’s election denialists are forcing a similar choice. It will all play out in November.

By 2024, middle-ground candidates of both parties will have the upper hand.

Pro-choice is not pro-abortion.

Yes it is, at least the way you leftists push it. Look at how the left wants to eliminate pregnancy support centers for proof. “Pro-choice” is, like every other leftist dogma, NO choice. Abortion is the default. If leftists cannot accept and maintain some rational limitations and restrictions on abortion, then it must be outlawed. You’ve proven you can’t be responsible with such power.

Really? What do you think the following means?

“This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.”

That’s about as clearly as it could be stated. The power of every State is bounded and limited by the Constitution, and by all Federal laws based upon it.

To interfere with the States’s right to pass laws on such a matter is a violation of the Constitution, and punishable as Treason.

Yes, but simps like you absolve women of dealing with the consequences.

Men aren’t moral superiors empowered by God to “absolve” women of anything—or vice versa.

Men aren’t moral superiors empowered by God to “absolve” women of anything—or vice versa.

Women aren’t allowed to commit murder just because they are women.

Comrade Greggie, until you can answer “what is a woman” you have no authority to speak for them. And perhaps you, as a Margaret Sanger worshiper, can tell us what your preferred method of abortion is.

Sanger had a lot in common with Hitler. Perhaps that is why you support her policies.

Comrade Greggie, until you can answer “what is a woman” you have no authority to speak for them. And perhaps you, as a Margaret Sanger worshiper, can tell us what your preferred method of abortion is.

Sanger had a lot in common with Hitler. Perhaps that is why you support her policies.

Women aren’t allowed to commit murder just because they are women.

That it’s murder is a religious position that isn’t even uniform among the religious. The First Amendment forbids oppression of an individual’s personal freedom based upon religion.

That it’s murder is a religious position that isn’t even uniform among the religious.

When you kill a viable baby, it’s murder. When you deliver a baby that survives an abortion and let it die, that’s murder. Only cults endorse this kind of inhumane barbarity. “Thou shalt not kill” may be a religious tenet, but actual laws are based upon it. It’s the way civilized people behave. Civilized people don’t endorse murder for convenience. Only barbaric cults of human sacrifice do. Only the religion of abortion does.