Florida Woman Denied Abortion Miscarried in Hair Salon Bathroom, Lost Half Her Blood

[Nevilledog]

https://jezebel.com/florida-woman-denied-abortion-miscarried-in-hair-salon-1850320023

A devastating new story in the Washington Post details how Florida’s 15-week abortion ban almost killed a woman, despite the fact that the ban nominally has exceptions in place for the health of the pregnant person. The reporting comes as the state works to finalize a ban after six weeks of pregnancy, which likely presidential contender Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is expected to sign.

In mid-December, Anya Cook was nearly 16 weeks pregnant when her water broke—long before a fetus could survive outside the womb. Cook went to an emergency room in Coral Springs, Florida, where the doctor said she was experiencing a rare complication that occurs in less than one percent of pregnancies called pre-viability premature rupture of the membranes, or PPROM. Once the amniotic sac breaks, there’s a risk of infection, which can be life-threatening even in pregnancies several weeks further along than Cook’s, per the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine.

Typically, doctors would induce labor or perform an abortion, but the ER doctor said they couldn’t induce her due to the state’s abortion ban, so they sent her home. A nurse gave her antibiotics and promised to pray for her. The next day, Cook ended up miscarrying her daughter, who she’d planned to call Bunny, in the bathroom of a hair salon. Her husband Derick had to sever the umbilical cord by pulling it apart with his hands. Cook told the Post that blood splattered across the floor, and according to medical records, she lost roughly half the blood in her body over the course of the day.

Paramedics rushed her to the hospital to stabilize her and remove any remaining pregnancy tissue from her uterus. The OB/GYN on call that day told Derick that Anya could die in the operating room. “I will do my very best,” the doctor said. “But the rest is up to God.” (The doctor shared this information with Anya’s consent.) She was hospitalized for six days.

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[atreides1]

1. I don't think this is over!

I have a bad feeling that law enforcement will be ordered to investigate this situation...and will likely already have orders to find a crime!

And before anyone says this can't happen...remember this is Florida and little Benito DeSantis is the Generalissimo!!!

[bdamomma]

2. The

"rest is up to God"..........WTF...............we will hear more of these tragic situations, if this is not stopped.

[Sky Jewels]

9. The same God that didn't do jack shit to stop slavery, Native genocide, Black Death & the Holocaust?

Seems like a flawed strategy to have "faith" in that guy.

[Evolve Dammit]

20. "but he loves you..." G. Carlin

[Sky Jewels]

22. And he's in need of your cash.

He's not good at handling money.

[Evolve Dammit]

53. What about the warning of "money-changers?" I know zero of theology but seems like he knew something

[dalton99a]

3. "A nurse gave her antibiotics and promised to pray for her."

WTF

[Sky Jewels]

10. Nothing fails like prayer.

It's mind-blowing that we're back in the Dark Ages with this shit in modern-day USA.

[live love laugh]

48. ‼️‼️‼️‼️

[jmowreader]

49. In Florida, that's all you can do

I think I'd be like, "no, pray for the Lord to call Ron DeSantis home."

[scarletlib]

4. She should sue the hell out of hospital/doctors for malpractice.

Endangered her life because they failed to act. Medical bills should be absorbed by hospital or paid by Florida government.

[snot]

5. One part I don't get:

She miscarried "in the bathroom of a hair salon. Her husband Derick had to sever the umbilical cord by pulling it apart with his hands."

Were there no scissors? Did the blood come from the umbilical cord, as the article seems to suggest, or from someplace else? If it was spurting from the umbilical cord, did no one think to apply a tournequet? The law is awful, of course; but these aspects of the story make no sense to me.

[scarletlib]

7. Guessing shock on his part & the need to act quickly.

[Hekate]

12. That is a man who is going to be traumatized for life. This is something he never expected ...

This is something he had no training for, or any expectation of needing training for. His behavior seems to have been out of sheer panic and ignorance.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

27. She asked him to break the cord.

[Hekate]

28. And?She was losing half her blood volume. I don't think she was in any shape to be giving directions

I don’t understand your point.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

35. I'm guessing that the miscarried pregnancy was pulling on the cord and causing extreme pain by

threatening to invert her uterus. She was in distress and asking for something she thought would help, and he did it. I'm pushing back on your use of "ignorance," that's all.

[Hekate]

40. Not a medical professional, not an EMT, not a veterinarian, not trained for this bloody emergency...

Not a battlefield medic, not a nurse. There must have been blood everywhere, as the article points out she lost half her blood volume.

“Ignorant” of what to do. As I am. When I say, “Trust me, I’m a doctor” it’s a family joke, because my doctorate is in the humanities and not in medicine.

And you?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

25. Derrick says in the full article that he had no scissors. The article also explains about the

different kinds of hemorrhaging this kind of condition can cause or be associated with.

[Duppers]

38. There's dozens of scissors in hair salons...

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That was my first thought too.

[UpInArms]

45. Generally, not in the bathroom

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[Duppers]

47. Of course, but open the door & yell for...

Scissors.

And DUer Snot, above, thought the same thing!

[progressoid]

52. They were going through a deeply painful and personal event.

Perhaps they didn't want the entire salon involved by shouting for a scissors.

[keithbvadu2]

6. DeSantis might send thoughts and prayers. Then again, he might not care.

[In It to Win It]

8. Heartbreaking to read. WaPo reported on it as well, here:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217812750

[elias7]

11. lawmakers must be held medically liable if they're going to make medical policy

[area51]

34. +1

If lawmakers were forced to pay for women's medical bills, it might even push us closer to universal healthcare.

[Hekate]

13. The statement that "women will die" is starting to gravel me. Dead women cannot speak out...

Given the severity of these “near deaths,” I’ll bet you anything that women ARE dying.

[Freddie]

15. I'm sure some already have

And the “pro-life” folks continue to deny that it’s a problem (“but the law has exceptions!”). No they should not sue the doctor and hospital, they followed the guidelines. Sue the State of Florida for making the guidelines. Find women with similar cases and file a class action suit like in Texas.

[Chainfire]

14. The Florida AG will probably be filing murder charges over the incident.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

24. Murder charges against whom?

I'll guess against the woman, given she didn't keep her baby alive.

A bit of angry sarcasm there.

[Chainfire]

42. Not really intended as sarcasm, I would not surprise me a bit. DeSatan is capable of anything.

[lapfog_1]

16. we are literally back to the days

find some straw, sheep dung, and rosemary... and we will make a poultice to put in her "dirty whore place".

Skyance... who needs skyance.

[barbtries]

17. i hope she can bring a lawsuit.

one that held the potential of overturning this cruel and unusual ban.

[Hekate]

29. Not unless she can get a pro bono lawyer to bring a class action lawsuit

[SunSeeker]

18. K & R for exposure.

[YoshidaYui]

19. Ron DeSantos!

Go fuck yourself!

[Evolve Dammit]

21. Fuck Death Sentence DeSatan. This is on you.

[Delphinus]

23. This makes

me so GD angry!

That POS female repuke said "we value life" - no, they fuckin' do NOT value life!

[NullTuples]

26. GOP: It's not life-threatening until the woman is already on her way to dying

[Hekate]

30. Exactly.

[bucolic_frolic]

31. Her husband is a hero

He did more than the medical system was allowed to do by law. Necessity is the mother of invention, or at least common sense when it counts.

[dchill]

32. Vaya con Dios. ( Go with God. )

[niyad]

33. FUCK EVERY SINGLE WOMAN-HATING, THEOCRATIC, CHRISTOFASCIST

GESTATIONAL SLAVER EVERY SINGLE PERSON AND INSTITUTION THAT BROUGHT US HERE.

[UpInArms]

46. +1

[Fiendish Thingy]

36. I hope they collect all these women's stories

And blanket the airwaves with them next year.

[perdita9]

37. Why is no one talking about the economics of this situation?

What would a D&C have cost this woman compare to what antibiotics, an ambulance ride and 6 days in the hospital cost?

The Forced Birthers are not just denying needed healthcare to women, they are running up the costs to the point where some women could go bankrupt trying to pay the bills.

[Hekate]

41. Because economics is not the point. The cruelty is the point. Subjugation is the point,,

[perdita9]

50. But money is the great motivating factor with the GOP

That their policies are costing women thousands of unnecessary dollars in medical care should be an issue

[Solly Mack]

39. K&R

[DemForLife]

43. I have a question

There were two of my pregnancies that ended in stillborn births. Both of my sons were determined to not have a heartbeat before I went into labor. The first one I only found out after going into labor at 8 months and the second one at my doctors appointment in my 7th. month. If this happened today, what would happen to me? No one knows what this kind of horror does to a couple . I say couple because this is something that both have to live with, grieve over and finally move on with a piece of your heart broken forever. Fortunately, we went to a specialist and were able to have another child who has given us our only grandchidren. My sons are still in my heart to this day.

[Hekate]

51. I am so so sorry for your terrible losses....

Unfortunately, what we have at large in this country today are people who fetishize fetuses at all stages of development, value them over the lives and health of women and little girls, and have an overriding desire to control women at all costs.. Their attitude toward pregnancies that go wrong is punitive.

[roamer65]

44. Good God.

Ugh.

This is just medieval.



This is why I have always been pro-abortion. Women need full access to the procedure at anytime, no restrictions.