'We can't touch you unless you're crashing in front of us or your blood pressure goes so high that you're fixing to have a heart attack,' she says she was told.
At the end of last month—two weeks after Statton was denied care by three different Oklahoma hospitals—the Oklahoma Supreme CourtAfter ultimately being unable to get an emergency D&C procedure in Oklahoma, Statton said
she and her husband drove three hours out-of-state to receive care in Kansas. She told NPR she’s now facing surgery to remove additional cancerous tissue.Dr. Loren Colson, a reproductive health care provider based in Idaho, says that molar pregnancies and similar high-risk pregnancy complications carry even greater risk with delays when hospitals weigh their legal risks. “Procedurally, it becomes a lot more complicated than it had to be, and a lot more difficult to treat,” Colson said.
As hospitals weigh their legal risks and pregnant people shoulder the consequences, advocates have pointed out that regardless of bans, doctors remain. And many hospitals have robust legal departments and resources that should enable them to take these risks. “I don’t want to speak for all physicians,” Colson said, “but I think when push comes to shove, hopefully, if someone had someone that was going to die without immediate intervention, that they would intervene.
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