Texas Is No Place to be Pregnant

Kelsie Norris-De La Cruz tried not to cry as the doctor in the emergency room delivered one of the most frightening diagnoses a pregnant woman can receive.

The 25-year-old college senior was told she likely had an ectopic pregnancy, a highly dangerous condition where the embryo implants outside of the uterus. Without immediate treatment, the fallopian tube can rupture — and the patient can die.

The law that has prohibited abortions in Texas since Roe v. Wade was overturned now explicitly allows doctors to treat ectopic pregnancies. But when doctors at Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital evaluated Norris-De La Cruz last week, they refused to terminate the pregnancy, saying there was some chance the pregnancy was still viable, Norris-De La Cruz recalled. Instead, they advised her and her mother to go home and wait, according to medical records reviewed by The Washington Post.

Norris-De La Cruz ultimately received emergency surgery about 24 hours later at a different hospital in the area, at which point her ectopic pregnancy had already started to rupture. The OB/GYN who performed the procedure said that, if Norris-De La Cruz had waited much longer, she would have been “in extreme danger of losing her life.”

If you read on in the article, you'll see that even the anti-abortion women-ating cranks who wrote the law in Texas say that she should have been allowed to terminate her pregnancy. If the cowardly doctors at Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital aren't going to at least follow the law in Texas with regards to emergency abortions, then they should either switch to a different specialty or leave the state.

The bottom line is that if you are a woman of child-bearing age in Texas, you should move to a state where you are not considered to be state property.

Meanwhile, the murdering piece of dogshit who is the governor of Texas is blabbering about building a wall on the Oklahoma border to "keep out radical woke". As if that's needed, for nobody with more than a quarter of a brain these days is moving to Texas.

Remember, this is what Republicans have wrought. Don't vote for a Republican, for any job whatsoever.