Wash Post Article: Roe vs. Wade decision impacts college decisions

twoinanddone
Sat, 06 Aug 2022 21:33:19 +0000

I don’t know how things were in the 60’s for etopic pregnancies, for d&c’s, for basic care. I do know my mother was on the pill when it first was available and she had to go off it for 6 months (thus my youngest brother).

Were women not getting care for etopic pregnancies? Could they not get birth control in some states? I really don’t know and don’t remember if women were dying because they couldn’t get care.

I had an ectopic pregnancy (when abortion was legal) but never once did anyone call it an abortion. My gynecologist (not an ob, and he didn’t perform abortions or deliver babies) performed the surgery, it was never billed as an abortion (I had a government policy and it did not cover abortions, but i wasn’t billed a dime). I really wasn’t given any choice. At 8 in the morning I was in the doctor’s office and by 9 I was in surgery. Sign here, do this, go here. There were no options presented of doing anything other than surgery, and doing it ASAP.

I just can’t imagine that ectopic pregnancies won’t be treated as a medical emergency. Some of the reddist states have the nicest medical facilities. I don’t think those doctors will suddenly change their best practices and question every procedure. They will continue to practice the best medicine they can. The insurance companies will continue to treat claims for medical care as medical care and not as an elective procedure.

But if I am wrong, and in the 50’s and 60’s women were endangered because doctors refused to do ectopic surgeries, let me know. I just don’t remember reading those statistics anywhere.