How many more cases like this have to happen, and how many women have to die or suffer permanent impairment before the idiots who enact such stupid laws either recover from their idiocy or are emphatically and humiliatingly voted out of office permanently?Jaci Statton had a partial molar pregnancy, a rare complication in which the placenta has irregular tissue, NPR reported. Molar pregnancies can cause a rare form of cancer and typically result in early miscarriages, according to the Mayo Clinic. They occur in about 1% of pregnancies, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
Statton and her husband have three young children, own a fishing guide company, and go fishing every day. The couple was looking forward to welcoming a new child into their family, NPR reported.
Statton told NPR that the hospital staff was "very sincere" and wasn't trying to be mean when they turned her away.
"They said, 'The best we can tell you to do is sit in the parking lot, and if anything else happens, we will be ready to help you," Statton told NPR. "But we cannot touch you unless you are crashing in front of us or your blood pressure goes so high that you are fixing to have a heart attack.'"
Oklahoma has three laws that ban abortion, with conflicting definitions for when exceptions are allowed, according to NPR. In March, the state supreme court ruled that abortions must be allowed if a patient's life is in danger.
Statton said doctors at the University of Oklahoma Medical Center told her that, although she was experiencing severe symptoms from her molar pregnancy, they could not help her and she only had around two weeks to live, Fox 25 reported.
If she were Texan, it could have been even worse. Both her husband, who drove her to Kansas, and the doctor who suggested it, could have been sued for up to $10,000 by any random, unrelated citizen, for helping her get that lifesaving abortion!"They said... 'You will die.' I had cancer cysts, cancer pockets around my baby, inside my uterus, and anytime one of those ruptured, I would bleed," Statton told the local station.
Statton told NPR that she was transferred to three different Oklahoma hospitals, all of which told her they couldn't give her an abortion, before doctors suggested that she leave and go to a state where abortion was legal.
She and her husband then drove to a Kansas abortion clinic where she had an abortion performed, according to the outlet.
Statton described the ordeal as "heartbreaking" and said she felt alone through the process and wished she could have gone to her own doctors and hospitals that she is familiar with for medical care, Fox 25 reported.
I stoutly maintain that all things rationally considered, the pro-choice position is actually more pro-life than is the anti-abortion position. That's why if anyone asks me whether I am pro-life or pro-choice, I will always answer "both!" If you are not both pro-choice and pro-life, you are really not pro-either one of the two.
