Are You Facing a
PREGNANCY EMERGENCY?
Pregnancy Emergencies, such as ectopic pregnancies or poor prenatal diagnoses, can be scary. Every mother deserves to be empowered with options that provide care and dignity for her and her baby without the fear too often caused by media reports that help will not be made available.
The fact is there are many medical professionals on standby, right now, who are willing to assist mothers facing troubling information. You are not alone.
Are you or someone you know experiencing any of the following Pregnancy Emergencies?
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**If this is an urgent life-threatening emergency, please dial 911 or seek immediate medical care at your local hospital.
If you are experiencing significant abdominal pain, cramping, or bleeding at any stage during your pregnancy, you could be suffering from a miscarriage and should call your OBGYN. Miscarriage is an unfortunate and tragic circumstance that can spontaneously occur at no fault of the mother. Children lost through miscarriage are as valued and cherished as born children.
The treatment for a miscarriage is not the same as an abortion, because the purpose of a direct abortion is to end life while miscarriage care focuses on maternal health and recovery.
Prescribing Misoprostol or using procedures such as uterine aspiration, dilation and evacuation, or dilation and curettage, are all possible methods a doctor could use to treat you. However, when these procedures are used for miscarriage care, they are only being used to remove a baby who has already passed away and in a manner that preserves a mother’s life and fertility. This is not considered a direct abortion as an elective abortion has a categorically different intention in using these procedures is to end the life of an otherwise healthy and developing human being.
If your state has enacted legal protection or limits on abortion, this should not impact your ability to receive miscarriage care. If a doctor refuses to treat you, get a second (or third) opinion as soon as possible. Make sure that a medical practitioner with an agenda is not slowing down the process of getting the help you need.
A poor prenatal diagnosis is when a medical practitioner identifies anything unusual or unexpected in a baby's development during pregnancy. These diagnoses range in severity from a developmental delay that the child outgrows over time, or they could be life-threatening for the baby. Children with an abnormal diagnosis in the womb are just as valuable and loved by their families as children who are born meeting suggested developmental benchmarks.
An ultrasound or prenatal testing may advise a prenatal diagnosis, but neither method is always 100% accurate. There are numerous cases of children diagnosed in the womb with supposed life-threatening abnormalities who were born healthy.
Not all prenatal diagnoses require treatment, and some may resolve on their own even before birth. Other conditions may need specialized care during delivery or soon after the baby is born. Rarely, treatment may be needed while the baby is still in the uterus such as prenatal surgery.
An abortion, however, does not directly address or treat a baby’s projected condition. If a doctor refuses to treat your baby’s medical condition or provide life-saving ethical options such as perinatal hospice to ensure your baby is not in pain after birth, get a second (or third) opinion as soon as possible.
For more information and resources for Prenatal Diagnosis, visit https://www.prenataldiagnosis.org
An ectopic pregnancy, also known as a tubal or extrauterine pregnancy, occurs when the newly-conceived baby implants somewhere other than the uterus (most commonly, in one of the fallopian tubes). An ectopic pregnancy is a life-threatening condition for both mother and baby because as the baby grows in a location that doesn’t allow for full development, a mother can rupture internally and experience life-threatening bleeding.
Treating ectopic pregnancy is not the same as an abortion.
Prescribing Methotrexate or using laparoscopic procedures such as salpingostomy (removal of baby) or salpingectomy (removal of baby and fallopian tube) are possible methods a doctor could use to treat you. These procedures, when used for ectopic pregnancy care, are removing a baby who is not able to survive safely in the location in which he or she has implanted. Unfortunately, a baby this young cannot yet survive outside of the womb and will pass away shortly after removal. This is not considered a direct abortion as an elective abortion is categorically different in that the intention of these procedures is to end the life of an otherwise healthy and developing human being.
If your state has enacted legal protection or limits on abortion, this should not impact your ability to receive ectopic pregnancy care. Laws all across the country protect a mother in a life-threatening emergency. If a doctor refuses to treat you, get a second (or third) opinion as soon as possible.
A molar pregnancy is a rare, life-threatening condition that is a result of a genetic miscoding upon fertilization. “Complete” molar pregnancies do not involve a developing baby, but only the placenta which produces pregnancy hormones. “Partial” molar pregnancies do involve a developing baby; however, the human embryo has such extreme anomalies that the baby will not survive and will also endanger the mother. If left untreated, a molar pregnancy could result in cancerous cells developing.
Treating a molar pregnancy is not the same as an elective abortion. This is a situation in which the life of a mother is at risk. Laws in every state across America protect a pregnant mother in a life-threatening emergency.
Molar pregnancies are often resolved by removal of either the abnormal placental tissue or the removal of the embryo from the uterus. Using procedures such as uterine aspiration, dilation and evacuation, or dilation and curettage, are all possible methods a doctor could use to treat you. However, when these procedures are used for molar pregnancy care, they are only being used to remove a baby in a dangerous position. An elective abortion is categorically different in that the intention is to end the life of an otherwise healthy and safely developing human being.
If your state has enacted legal protection or limits on abortion, this should not impact your ability to receive molar pregnancy care. If a doctor refuses to treat you, get a second (or third) opinion as soon as possible.