For doctors who work with high-risk pregnancies, Texas' abortion ban has added an extra layer of pressure and paperwork when making life-or-death decisions.
After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Texas' trigger law banned nearly all abortions and added criminal charges — including life in prison — for doctors who perform an illegal abortion.For doctors who work with high-risk pregnancies, Texas’ abortion ban has added an extra layer of pressure and paperwork when making life-or-death decisions.Texas’ trigger law banned nearly all abortions starting on Aug.
Dr. Patrick Ramsey practices at University Hospital and serves as the maternal-fetal medicine fellowship director at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio.“A mom recently came into one of those hospitals bleeding profusely at 15 weeks and the doctor was calling me to see if they should perform a dilation and curettage procedure, to resolve the serious bleeding,” he said, referring to the medical term for one of the most common forms of abortion.
Working directly with families is so rewarding. For most people, 99% of the time, everything goes fine. But if you’ve never been there before — just the anticipation and the excitement and uncertainty for patients, I’m sure, is intense.Have you had to change the words you use when talking to patients since the overturning of Roe v. Wade?Success! You're on the list.
So if a mom has a heart problem, we’ll get the cardiologists involved and we’ll get the intensive care providers involved and have a real robust discussion about what the true risk would be for the mom if she stays pregnant at the current time and what it would be for delivery. Since Roe got overturned, we’ve beefed up that process so that it’s even more of a care team discussion, to make sure we have more people involved with that consensus development. . It’s created a little more delay in the process.first came out, University Hospital and UT Health met with our attorneys to talk about what is the impact of those laws and the current processes in place.
SAR: Do you feel that you or your colleagues have ever had to not perform an abortion that you probably would have before?I think there’s more pause. One example scenario is a pregnancy of unknown location — those are usually tubal or ectopic pregnancies [a potentially life-threatening condition in which the fertilized egg implants outside the uterus]. We have very clear clinical criteria that define when we should see a pregnancy in the uterus.
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