Abortion Ban Forces Texas Woman to Delay Treatment for Miscarriage | Amanpour and Company
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- The Supreme Court's decision to overturn the constitutional right to abortion is having an impact across the country. Millions of women in red states are contending with new restrictions, many of which are being challenged in the courts. Internet searches for abortion pills have skyrocketed. Shocking cases have emerged, like the 10-year-old rape victim compelled to leave her home state of Ohio in order to obtain a safe and legal abortion. Confusion surrounding new laws has led to patients being denied necessary healthcare. Marlena Stell, who lives in Texas, suffered a miscarriage late last year. Doctors, bound by the state's "six-week ban," denied her the abortion needed to remove the fetus. Marleena joins the show from Houston.
Originally aired on July 22, 2022.
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I had an ectopic (tubal) pregnancy when I was a married, 30 year old. The doctor couldn't stop the bleeding. This was 30 years ago. I'm glad I wasn't forced to bleed to death.
Statically speaking, a woman giving birth today has a 50% greater chance of dying in childbirth than her mother did.
Indeed, there are news of women having to wait, while bleeding, until their lives are in danger before Drs. can legally do what’s needed to save them. This whole thing is so backwards!
A cousin’s co-worker, a doctor at a major Florida hospital collapsed one day at work. Fortunately there was an ER doctor who suspected an ectopic pregnancy after reading her vitals and operated immediately, saving her life. The woman had NO clue she was pregnant and had she been forced to wait for permission, she probably would have died within 30 minutes of the rupture because the bleeding was so bad.
@@ianchandley I thought I was having a normal period until the pain doubled me over.
@@DulceN it's awful. And what's worse is women are now having their personal life's and health care become public news and judgement 😕 politics personal opinions, advocacy and religion have somehow become more important than scientific facts and doctors with degrees that specialize in the health and well being of women. It also allows strangers to make choices about a womens health when they themselves don't have any degrees or know anything about what women go through. The fact that the opinions of Drs specialist and psychologist weren't even considered. It's very infuriating. When they asked the man who was mad that the 10 yr old got an abortion who was raped, if he was worried about the little girl at all and that she would mostly likely die and so would the baby. He simply said I'm more concerned about the baby. They don't care about us were just baby factories to them. We always have been. now it's worse. I hate it! Your very right so backwards!!
Something has gone deeply wrong in our country when anti-abortion fascism is enforced.
They've been planning this for years. Too bad Dems have been MIA.
_Amen!_
This is SHAMEFUL. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Journalists must keep reporting these stories as often as they happen until people wake the fuck up and acknowledge these anti-abortion laws are stupid and dangerous.
It's going to be just as ineffective as reporting on school shootings.
@@Rhythmicons This issue is less sensational than school shootings and more likely to hit closer to home for most people, especially when the general population realizes these so called pro-lifers are also against contraception. The far right religious zealots that have set us decades in reverse want to punish women for having sex by forcing birth on them. That must not stand. All we need is more truth coming out in real time to put this all into perspective, because the overwhelming majority of Americans are just not this radical or stupid.
@@shawncrawford3146 I applaud and envy your optimism. I view these laws as "We don't want your kind around here" laws. They want to make life as difficult as possible so that you leave. They don't want you to stop just beyond the state border, they want you to leave the country. Love it or leave it. They don't believe that the principles of the constitution or the benefits of citizenship apply to people who don't look, think, and behave the way they do. Conservatives want to create enclaves of power in the states where white anglo saxon protestant cultural hegemony to rule unchallenged just as it has always been in this country, but more akin to the way it was prior to the Civil War.
Democrats lack the political will for reform. If dead schoolchildren isn't enough of an appeal to emotion to spur emergency action, then who cares about adults?
@@Rhythmicons All valid points and I agree with you, but we must remember the people that think as you described, are very much in the minority. Guns are a weird issue since many people have them and see any reaction to even something heinous as children being slaughtered still feels like a threat to their treasured firearms. But everyone has women in their lives and many people will be deeply effected by these changes. Taking away the right of privacy is at the root of all these changes. That will impact everyone eventually. We mustn’t become cynical. Anger and outrage is exhausting, but it’s exactly what we need right now. They can not win unless we give up. Time and truth are on our side, so is science and progress. The Trump will soon be dead, and the extremists will be left with no American deity to blind them with constant victimhood and hatred. I truly believe that. Besides, there’s no where to run to, no other country in the world will have us. We’re going to have to make our stand here. Peace
@@shawncrawford3146 Like I said, I envy your optimism. My plan was to retreat to the Philippines, but they elected Duterte and then Marcos again.
When enough pro-life women bleed to death, Scotus may be willing to reconsider.
Thats my point. Only pro choice women are "having problems receiving care". Only pro choice doctors are complaining of not being able to care for women who have had miscarriages. Pro choice women trying to create a false narrative. It's not going to work. Roe is gone. The only way women who have had abortions will find peace love and joy in their lives is if they help other women not make the same mistake they did.
@@paullake6275 You mean all those women who have had abortions and reported that they have no regrets, and felt thankful and relieved being free to move on having done so-- are now going to deny that for other women? I seriously doubt it.
They don't care.
I believe this is the outcome they want.
Don't count on it.
Please everyone vote in November!!!! We need a bigger majority in both the house and the senate to codify abortion rights into federal law.
Seriously, no amount of power is enough for Dems to get ANYTHING done !
When Republicans get a bit of power, they run rampant,
Biden still hasn't even gotten rid of DeJoy!!!!
Why wasn't this done decades ago? Answer: because the Dems don't really want to.
@@lenblack1462 The first time there was ever a pro-choice majority in the House of Representatives was...2019. It's true "Democrats" didn't want to because if you look at the Democratic Party of 2009 a lot of them were very conservative. 64 House Dems participated in the anti-choice Stupak rebellion. My family in Lafayette Louisiana had Democrat Charlie Melançon as rep, he had a 0% NARAL rating, and was always in the Christian Coalition voter guide with anti-choice, anti-stem cell policies. In the few months that Democrats had 60 votes in the Senate, they had a lot of anti-choice votes among them, including both senators from North Dakota, both senators from Arkansas, both senators from West Virginia, one Senator from LA, ND, IA, etc. The anti-choice Democrat from Nebraska Ben Nelson even tried to get in the ACA bill a provision that would require people who subscribe to health plans that cover abortion care to pay two separate bills each month, one for "regular" medical care and one for abortion care.
She could have gotten infected. 😭😭😭😭
We are Gilead. No joke.
🎯💯 Enraging!
Agreed. It’s terrifying. Please everyone vote in November!!!! We need a bigger majority in both the house and the senate to codify abortion rights into federal law.
This is terrifying. So much so that my 28 y/o, unmarried daughter, who suffers greatly from PCOS and has been told she won’t be able to carry a pregnancy to term, is seeking a hysterectomy. We live in VA, a blue-ish state, but having a trumpian governor (who only got the job because Dems didn’t go to vote in the special elections….) we don’t know if there will be restrictions in the medications that my daughter badly needs to try to alleviate her symptoms; worse yet if she ever needs a D&C due to a miscarriage or has an unwanted pregnancy…
Same here!! I have PMDD, and if birth control gets restricted- then I'm screwed:(
go to Maryland
My wife has “THE worst case of PCOS I have ever seen” (the OBGYN who emergency operated on her for an ectopic pregnancy) miscarried 10 times, but we were able to have a healthy daughter in the middle of all the miscarriages. PCOS is awful but a hysterectomy is a pretty dramatic step to take…. Fortunately we are not Americans and don’t have to deal with the bullshit your backward nation is putting you through.
We wish your daughter well and hope she finds the right solution to her PCOS.
These stories make me sick to my stomach and enraged at the same time. Welcome to Gilead. 😠
Dangerous and stupid!
We’re not playdo machines.
Dangerous and stupid!...the republikkkan party. 🤨
I heard in another report that this lady and her husband wanted this baby, but they will not try again to get pregnant out of fear.
These kinds of situations will keep coming up!😓😓😓🙏🏾
And these stories will get worse, and more egregious!
Horrible... truly horrible.
Texas is a barbarous state. My condolences to this woman for having to go through such a traumatic experience. Women should be treated with more dignity than to have to carry a corpse around in their wombs for weeks.
Right
Why didn't she go to the emergency room?
Paul, did you watch the video? The ER docs can't do anything! That's the point!!!
@@ladydeerheart1 that's rude
@@ladydeerheart1 She never went to the ER. She consulted a doctor but not at the ER.
Women must unite to save our own lives and the lives of our mothers, sisters, daughters, and granddaughters.
“It is one mifepristone pill, followed by four misoprostol pills, dissolved under the tongue, 24 to 48 hours later,” she said. “Or, a series of 12 misoprostol pills, four at a time, dissolved under the tongue, every three hours. There’s no way to test it in the bloodstream, and a person doesn’t need to tell the police what they took.”
@@ladydeerheart1 Probem is, some states want to pass laws to make those pills illegal, even through the mail. Not to mention that one of those is used to treat another disease. So those people will have their li es put in danger too.
Isn’t there a danger of endometriosis- leaving tissue to attach to various internal areas? I once had a cesarean, which was attributed to later endometriosis. Tissue not completely removed. In your case, is the added threat of deadly infection.
Endometriosis runs in my family but it caused infertility in the women I know. They were never able to become pregnant so that's not what caused theirs.
@@ladydeerheart1 Yes, there is not just one cause for endometriosis.
I can't believe the hospital obstetrics denied surgery. Rediculous. Unethical.
This is not just any woman. This is the owner of Makeup Geek.
Thank you I knew the name sounded familiar
She is, isnt she?! Ive watched some of her videos on her RUclips channel. I knew she looked and sounded familiar but I couldn't place her name...
@@JackOllie4 there was nothing condescending about what I said.
Which goes to show these laws have an impact on even wealthy, successful women.
Waiting, waiting, waiting ….. til she gets septic and ends up in the ICU. (And I can only imagine the insurance nightmare of getting multiple ultrasounds and finding other providers able to see you in a timely fashion)
Insurance companies won't pay. They'll just simply say the doctors should have foowed AMA guidelines for treating miscarriages. Women will end up with 150k of hospital bills.
Thankfully companies like Nike and other big retailers and buisness like Disney are offering any of their employees whatever they need to meet their health care needs. Including making sure you get to wherever you need to go down to you having a place to stay. It's amazing
@@MW-no8vq yes tho your correct unfortunately so many bills 😕 you would think because we are not at fault for being able to reproduce it's not our fault we do and men can't so why are we punished for it? Like tampons why do we have to pay for those when we have to have them? It's frustrating lol
@@wb7606 even if the company pays for transportation, what she is in a center state? She could easily bleed out, go into cardiac arrest, go septic, etc before she arrived in a responsible state. Literally, all pregnant woman with any known medical condition should not stay in her state because it could very well be a death sentence.
Your doctor could be competent, could be willing to risk her freedom for your life, but the hospital chief of staff and legal are terrified of a law suit and themselves being incarcerated that they say no. What until she is critical so we can avoid all liability.
@@MW-no8vq oh I know I'm totally agreeing 👍
This is crazy what is wrong with this country
“It is one mifepristone pill, followed by four misoprostol pills, dissolved under the tongue, 24 to 48 hours later,” she said. “Or, a series of 12 misoprostol pills, four at a time, dissolved under the tongue, every three hours. There’s no way to test it in the bloodstream, and a person doesn’t need to tell the police what they took.”
Even in IL I had to wait another week for a second ultrasound for them to take care of my missed miscarriage. Then I did take the medication first and it only expelled 80% of it. I had to have the D&C to remove the remaining.
I am so sorry girl... That's such bullshit.
This is not some fluke, it's been planned for decades. We took this right for granted, and now this happens because Ds have been reactive not proactive.
If it wasn't for the electoral college, none of this would've happened! If Jill Stein voters had voted for Hillary Clinton, none of this would've happened! Both voters and politicians need to wake up and stop being so complacent.
The GQP has made A Handmaid's Tale come true. Put the blame on REPUBLICAN MEN because they caused these problems for women.
@@joeblow5087 there's a lot of women that fight for and are happy about this decision. Better yet, blame anyone that thinks they should have a say about whether someone else should have an abortion.
Plenty of doctors testified in these states before these bills were passed. But Republican lawmakers ignored their warnings. Men who thought women who get raped can prevent their pregnancies thought they knew more than doctors who studied the subject for years and practiced for decades did. 🤦♀️🤬😡
@@GretabpoohI'm genuinely curious what they were thinking. Like, how does a victim prevent pregnancy? 😂
This is outta hand. Wtf are we doing risking lives n sanity like this?
Ladies if men support this crap…shut down the shop!! It’s a power play!
Marlena, I saw you on MSNBC. I am so sorry for what happened to you. I moved fom Florida to New Mexico due to the 'Trump/DeSantis" Atmosphere Ipray NM cont to be a Patient centered state or may have to move to Canada! Im praying for you and your daughter.
I miss Makeup Geek so much...there are NO eye shadows like yours!
So they don't trust their equipment enough to feel confident to act without a lawsuit. Omword, that's not doctoring. These laws & insurance companies tie our doctors hands that hold our & our loved ones lives.
OB/GYN doctors already have the highest malpractice insurance rates. Of course they are being extra careful, especially since under some of these laws they can lose their medical license, or even be imprisoned. That's a lot to ask any doctor to face. Those states are going to face an OB/GYN shortage, which will further endanger pregnant women's lives. They possibly might see insurers who won't even issue malpractice insurance in their states, because they will lose money if doctors face large lawsuits.
Be angry at the state lawmakers, not the doctors or insurers.
Trump’s America.
Pure medical neglect.
Medical neglect? The Drs. have their hands tied by the new retrograde laws!
Pure LEGISLATIVE neglect. Blame the lawmakers that wrote these laws for not listening to doctors when they warned them this is what would happen. You can't expect any doctor to risk his medical license, which means losing his livelihood, or even losing his freedom. We'd have to pay much higher medical costs if we expect them to go to those lengths. Then no woman would be able to afford insurance.
Christians have never seen persecution. Jews definitely have, but not Christians. Less than a hundred received any kind of impact from Rome. The Romans just wanted Christians to assimilate into the culture. I'm an avid watcher of ancient roman and Greek history videos.
The Romans might have had the right idea with lions when it comes to religious theocrats
Why didn't she go to the emergency room?
Emergency rooms don't treat you for a dead fetus
@@bigvaxmeanie925 If you are having complications from a miscarriage they certainly do. Especially if you are having problems like this lady claims she had. If it was my wife I would have taken her to the emergency room.
@@bigvaxmeanie925 This lady never mentions going to the emergency room at all. How do you know that they would not help her if she never went?
@@paullake6275 because the procedure required to treat her is called an abortion
You know, when they remove an unwanted fetus from the womb ? The thing they outlawed in Texas
@@bigvaxmeanie925 Its murder to kill a baby in the womb. If she was Traumatized and scared of infection, then she should have gone to the EMERGENCY ROOM.
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Pro life? How sad that a 10 year old girl had an abortion she supposed to carry to term. Right?
😯😳
Horse feathers
Such eloquent and rational reasoning. 🤦♀️
Fake news. Bad advice.
Enjoy losing 2022 elections you barbarians
Well, you should hope your loved one doesn't have a pregnancy complications in a red state. She may die.
Just because you don't like it, it doesn't make it fake news.
. Miscarriages happens often. They must remove what is left in the vomb so it dont get toxic.