A doctor sent Sarah Nolan home after she found out she was pregnant.
Immediate treatment is required to prevent deadly internal bleeding.
Some women have said they felt like their lives were more important than their unborn children's.
Sarah Nolan thought she had a uti when she started to experience lower belly pain. She went to the urgent care clinic. Her contraceptive device had failed.
Nolan is a PhD student in Los Angeles. She and her husband did not want the baby to be born.
She went to her OB-GYN's office the next day and found out she was pregnant, but there were no signs of an unborn child. Nolan said the doctor told him there was probably something growing outside of his period.
Nolan's ectopic pregnancy was caused by the fertilized egg implanting somewhere other than her uterus, most likely her fallopian tube. The risk of ectopic pregnancies is raised by IUDs. The embryo can cause internal bleeding and possibly death if it isn't stopped.
She wasn't treated quickly. She said the doctor didn't treat her at all when she went to the emergency room.
She wrote that she suspected that he sent her home to delay the procedure so that she wouldn't find out that she was pregnant. He didn't see me when he looked for a baby.
Nolan said the ER doctor sent her home.
"You should come back on Thursday, when I will be working again, so I can see you and we can determine the kind of pregnant you are," he said. We can give you some methotrexate if it's ectopic.
Nolan felt like she was off by Wednesday. She went back to the ER after throwing up and starting to feel unwell.
Nolan was told by the doctor that her ectopic pregnancy had already caused internal bleeding, and that she had to go home.
Nolan said that he had been bleeding internally for five days.
Nolan had a procedure to remove the pregnancies and fallopian tubes. She wrote that the malaise was still present.
She said that she understands that a womb can be a terrible burden. Those who will only see me for reproduction will always be present.
Other people have reported feeling like their ectopic pregnancies were valued over their own lives, an experience some doctors fear is becoming more common since the overturn of the abortion law.
People who have had abortions in countries with strict abortion bans have spoken out about the life threatening effects of delayed care.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says that abortion bans can cause confusion for patients and health care professionals. It is not necessary for healthcare professionals to navigate vague legal or statutory language to determine whether the law allows them to exercise their professional judgment.
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