“We can’t tell the patient to be dishonest, but what we can say is…’What you mean is, you’re already having a miscarriage, right?’”
More than one doctor I spoke to said they’ve changed how they do their “charting,” which is how they record a patient’s clinical data and medical history. An emergency room physician said that since abortion was banned in August, she no longer uses the medical terms “spontaneous abortion,” “missed abortion,” or “inevitable abortion,” even though none of those terms clinically refer to elective abortions.
The ER doctor said that she and her fellow physicians have been told to rely more heavily on obstetricians than before. “If it’s a question of a pregnancy going wrong, they want us to involve OB,” she said. “At this point we are criminalizing adverse pregnancy outcomes even if they’re not elective abortions. If women can be charged for bad things happening during their pregnancy, the hospital wants as many credible doctors’ names on the paperwork to avoid liability.
She said she has to describe the situation “exactly in the way that the law states it in order to be sure they won’t put me in jail.”The OB-GYN added that in these situations, her patients don’t always choose to terminate, but she still documents everything in a way in case they decide to. So far, she says her patients have either chosen to continue the pregnancy or traveled elsewhere for abortion care.
and the New Orleans Abortion Fund remain active and are ways patients can find the nearest legal abortion resource.”was overturned, patients seeking abortions were referred to one of the three abortion clinics in the state. Kathaleen Pittman is the director of Hope Medical Group in Shreveport, which is currently in the process of raising funds to. Pittman said she recalls her clinic being called for help when hospitals needed it.
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