TX hospitals are refusing to see people with serious pregnancy issues

Fresno CA

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Some Texas hospitals are reportedly refusing to treat people with severe pregnancy complications for fear that they will violate the state's strict abortion ban, the Texas Medical Association said, according to the Dallas Morning News. In a letter to the Texas Medical Board seen by the newspaper, the association said it had received numerous complaints that hospitals were blocking doctors from giving pregnant people medically necessary care, which includes ending a pregnancy. According to the paper, the letter described one case of a woman who had an ectopic pregnancy — a pregnancy that grows in the fallopian tubes and will never be viable, but will be life-threatening. She was said to have been refused treatment until her pregnancy ruptured.