Reply #18: NOT (and really bothered by all these assumptions)

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If a woman is pregnant, intends to carry to term, and has a miscarriage, she does NOT go to an abortion clinic. Abortion clinics do NOT customarily treat miscarriage situations. Abortion clinics perform elective pregnancy terminations.

If a woman is miscarrying, she goes to a hospital.

A hospital is prepared to deal with complications. An abortion clinic, when unforeseen complications occur, sends the distressed patient to a HOSPITAL.

Women who go to abortion clinics for terminations are examined and found to be in a sufficiently healthy state to have the elective abortion performed in a non-hospital setting. If they are NOT sufficiently healthy, the abortion will not be performed at the clinic. Other arrangements will have to be made.

CLEARLY this woman needed to go to a HOSPITAL.

As far as I know, the only abortion facilities that are prepared to deal with potentially severe health complications are those like Dr Tiller's, Dr Carhart's, and Dr Hern's. Late term procedures, when tragically needed, often include medical complications. And there are medical issues that could require patients being treated in one of these facilities to be transferred to a hospital. And none of these facilities are intended for the use of caring for women who miscarry.

Your tone in your post really bothers me. It's like you're trying to prove that Catholic hospitals have the right to let female patients die, they have the right to refuse to treat women, and that any problem having to do with pregnancy and female reproductive care issues can always be taken care of by the convenient local neighborhood abortion clinic, if a woman doesn't want to die in the Catholic hospital. I don't understand what your problem is, because this is so far from the truth it's scary to think that there are people, on DU, that really think the way you do.

On edit: The facility "right across the street" is an OB/GYN clinic that provides reproductive health care services and performs ELECTIVE PROCEDURES. It is NOT a hospital and is NOT a facility where a miscarriage would be treated. This facility would have sent this woman TO A HOSPITAL, and the closest hospital WOULD NOT PERFORM A D&C/ABORTION. The only result of going to the place "right across the street" would be more time wasted when a patient was in a health crisis.