More than 100 pregnant women in medical distress who sought help from emergency rooms have been turned away or negligently treated since 2022.

Bleeding and in pain, Kyleigh Thurman didn’t know her doomed pregnancy could kill her.

Emergency room doctors at Ascension Seton Williamson in Texas handed her a pamphlet on miscarriage and told her to “let nature take its course” before discharging her without treatment for her ectopic pregnancy.

When she returned three days later, still bleeding, doctors finally agreed to give her an injection to end the pregnancy. It was too late. The fertilized egg growing on Thurman’s fallopian tube ruptured it, destroying part of her reproductive system.

That’s according to a complaint Thurman and the Center for Reproductive Rights filed last week asking the government to investigate whether the hospital violated federal law when staff failed to treat her initially in February 2023.

“I was left to flail,” said Thurman, 35. “It was nothing short of being misled.”

  • @Apytele
    51•27 days ago

    See this is exactly what they mean when they say abortions are Healthcare. Pro-birth ideologies often even lead to less fertility as seen here. If I ever get in touch with my parents again I’ll tell them I’m willing to offer my eggs to a cousin or something with infertility, but my mother has to write me a letter thanking me for having the strength to not listen to her bad advice and get an IUD anyway, because it turns out I’ve had endometriosis for 15 years and the IUD is the reason it didn’t run rampant and the reason I would still have eggs to give them.