Will doctors perform an abortion on a diabetic woman?

[beam me up scottie]

Is RU-486 an option?

Conception date was January 25th and the woman is 39 years old. She does need insulin daily but otherwise is in pretty good health.

[Posteritatis]

1. Is there a reason they wouldn't/shouldn't?

I'm clueless and curious in equal measure.

[beam me up scottie]

3. This woman claims she was turned away from the clinic because she is diabetic.

She has been less than truthful and the baby was conceived when she was cheating on her husband.

[Jennicut]

8. They are lying to her then. Having a child is more risky then aborting one as a diabetic.

[beam me up scottie]

10. I don't think the clinics are the ones doing the lying.

She had decided to have an abortion but then waffled, I think she's playing her lover for a fool.

[Jennicut]

2. I am diabetic and I don't see why not except the risk for infections is higher

As a diabetic we tend to have an increased risk for not healing properly in any surgery or medical procedure. She needs to ask a doctor for sure though.

[beam me up scottie]

4. That's what I thought too.

And if abortion is considered risky, wouldn't carrying a child be even more so?

[Hello_Kitty]

6. Is there a Planned Parenthood near her?

I would think they'd be the least likely to feed her a line of bullshit.

[beam me up scottie]

11. I think she's making it up.

She lives in a large city and has access to many different clinics. If the procedure was that risky I imagine they could also do it in a hospital.

[Jennicut]

7. Yes precisely why I will never have any more children

I actually got gestational diabetes while pregnant with my second daughter and it never went away. To have a child when diabetic is risky for the mother and the child but not unheard of...Halle Berry is diabetic and had a child. But you have to be super strict with your diet and closely monitored.

[beam me up scottie]

12. Yeah, she has a 15 year old daughter and used to say she wouldn't do it again.

And at 39 there will probably be many other complications.

[Dorian Gray]

17. Yes

Carrying the baby would be more difficult than aborting the baby for a diabetic woman. I believe both are viable options. Many diabetic women have children in a relatively healthy manner if they take care of themselves during their pregnancy.

I suspect she is just telling a story about why she couldn't get an abortion.

[Warpy]

20. The stress of an abortion at 8 weeks might also spike her sugars

for a couple of days. She needs to watch them closely.

However, sugar spikes are less hazardous than extremely low blood sugar and certainly wouldn't contraindicate an abortion.

If the woman is less than truthful about other things, she's probably fictionalizing this. Pinning her down to which clinic and then checking it out might help the other parties involved. In any case, this plus the fact that she's at 8 weeks gestation--getting up there--is proof that she's ambivalent about the procedure, at the very least.

It sounds like somebody who's trying to "should" herself into doing one thing and fictionalizing a reason to do the opposite, which is the option she really wants.

It's still up to her.

[Hello_Kitty]

5. What clinic?

It seems to me that she's within the perfect timeframe to have a simple, aspirational abortion. If she wants it, what's the hold up? Are they claiming that childbirth is LESS dangerous for a diabetic woman?

[beam me up scottie]

13. The father (not her husband) is gullible.

She thinks her hubby is leaving her and my guess is that she needs a back-up plan.

Not to mention she could also have used the morning after pill.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

9. No........

If she's healthy and has her diabetes under control, there's no reason she can't have the procedure.

She's shining you on.

[beam me up scottie]

14. Not me, I'm a born skeptic, but she is shining on this poor kid.

What a wonderful mother she'll be. :sarcasm:

And people wonder why I prefer the company of non-human animals more and more.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

18. It just gets uglier and uglier,

doesn't it, the more you see of what people can do to each other?

A lifetime spent in the practice of law has given me a pretty good Bullshit Detector, and, like you, I'd just as soon avoid most of the human race.

That poor guy. That poor husband. Nice woman, she is.....................

[uppityperson]

16. I agree with your assessment.

In my experience, there is no reason merely ("merely", as if) being diabetic would rule out an abortion. I have never heard this and have been involved with abortion issues and health care.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

19. That's why I wrote

"... diabetes under control..." Obviously, if things are unstable, you're not even going to get your teeth cleaned until they're straightened out, but the notion that a medical service provider told her that was a reason for not having the procedure was just nonsense.

Thanks for the affirmation.

:toast:

[beam me up scottie]

15. Thanks for all of your responses, I will be back in the morning.

I need to inventory my birth control products.