'They are playing with people's lives with this law,' said one Florida woman who suffered a pregnancy complication and was denied care.
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The two friends both experienced preterm prelabor rupture of the membranes , which affects less than 1% of pregnancies and causes the pregnant person to lose amniotic fluid, making it extremely unlikely that their fetus will survive. PPROM can cause hemorrhaging and serious infections, and the standard of care recognized by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists is an induction of labor or a surgical abortion—but with Florida'slast year, doctors did not offer Cook those options when she went to a hospital in Coral Springs, Florida one night after realizing she has losing amniotic fluid.
Cook only received antibiotics and was told to wait at home for her symptoms to for her condition to progress. The next day, in the bathroom of a nail salon, she delivered her 16-week-old fetus and immediately began hemorrhaging—eventually losing nearly half the blood in her body. The treatment she eventually was given after being rushed to the hospital a second time left her with complications that may make it even more difficult for her to carry a pregnancy to term."In what world is that pro-life?" asked;�use Florida law allows emergency abortions only in the most extreme and dire circumstances, patients who are not yet on the brink of death are encouraged to undergo hysterectomies instead. In what world is that pro-life? https://t.
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