Abortion Bans Will Impact Doctors’ Treatment of Cancer, Miscarriage

Fresno CA

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The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade will have a wide-ranging impact on the treatment of numerous medical conditions and diseases, including care for cancers that occur during pregnancy as well as miscarriages. Restrictive abortion laws will likely make it more difficult for women to get appropriate miscarriage treatments, doctors say, because the procedures used to treat it can be exactly the same as those used to terminate an otherwise viable pregnancy. Abortion advocates and doctors’ groups have warned about the havoc that a ban could cause for pregnant patients with a wide range of illnesses and ailments. Now that the high court has delivered its decision against abortion rights, patients are going to feel the effects, doctors said. “There is a lot of overlap between abortion care and miscarriage management,” said Holli Jakalow, an obstetrician/gynecologist at Columbia University in New York. Some miscarriages develop slowly and doctors may remove fetal tissue early to reduce risk of complications such as bleeding. But now “until there is no absolute heartbeat we are not going to be be able to intervene in states. (HUGE mistake. That's really all we need, is more chaos. It's a damn good thing Trump's goons are on the other side, they'd probably storm the court and threaten to hang someone.)