Undetected Ectopic Pregnancy Leaves Women in Coma

Feb. 19th, 2015 04:01 pm
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The family of a pregnant woman who has been in a coma since Sunday is blaming the hospital that they say failed to realize she was experiencing a ruptured ectopic pregnancy and bleeding internally.

Lisa Avila, 36, of Anaheim, California, was 12 weeks pregnant when she woke up on Valentine's Day with severe pain in her abdomen, her aunt, Jessica Jule, said at a news conference Tuesday. Doctors at Anaheim Regional Medical Center's emergency room did an ultrasound, said her baby was fine and sent her away with a prescription for painkillers, Jule said.

Afterward, her husband left her in their car while he went into a pharmacy, and when he returned, Avila was unconscious and not breathing, Jule said. Paramedics rushed her back to the same hospital, where they learned Avila had an ectopic pregnancy, meaning the fetus was developing outside the uterus, Jule said.

The ectopic pregnancy ruptured, causing her to bleed internally, the aunt said.

From later on in the article:
"Ruptured ectopic pregnancy is the number one cause of maternal mortality in the first trimester," Ashton said. "If it ruptures, women can lose liters of blood very quickly."

Signs include pelvic pain on one side, dark red vaginal bleeding and a positive pregnancy test, Ashton said. Because they ultimately lead to life-threatening miscarriages, treatment for ectopic pregnancy is usually surgery or medication to end the pregnancy.

Seriously, I find ectopic pregnancy to be freaking scary....especially when I read articles like these and the comments on the article from women that went through it.
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California Prisons were Illegally Sterilizing Female Inmates

Jul. 8th, 2013 10:40 pm
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Over the course of several years, two women's prisons in California signed at least 150 pregnant women up for permanent sterilization to be performed after they gave birth, without following the required state approval procedure. And now, some women who underwent the procedure say they felt coerced into having a tubal ligation while incarcerated, according to a report from the Center for Investigative Reporting.

Forced sterilization of institutionalized human beings — those in mental institutions, or in prisons, for example — has a long and gruesome history in the U.S., and in California in particular, where forced sterilization has been against the law since 1979. Because of this history, there are a number of laws in place to prevent institutions from performing the procedure without full, freely-given consent. It's against the law to pressure a female inmate to have the procedure during labor or childbirth, which just seems obvious.
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For CA Choicers

Sep. 4th, 2010 12:06 pm
[identity profile] lynn82md.livejournal.com
I got this from Planned Parenthood:

During the debate on September 1st between Debra Boxer and Carly Fiorina, Fiorina was asked if she would seek to overturn Roe vs. Wade. Her answer? "If there is an opportunity"

If you have any relatives and friends living in CA that are pro-choice, bring this to their attention. Have them sign it so they can let Fiorina know that they heard her and will keep that in mind on the election on November 2nd when they go to the polls.
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