Friday, March 11, 2022

Opinion | Why Was a Catholic Hospital Willing to Gamble With My Life? - The New York Times

…Although her water had broken, the Catholic hospital, because of its restrictions on abortion, had denied her the procedures that would have been required to hasten the completion of the miscarriage. 

By the time she transferred to another hospital and came under Dr. Eisenberg's care, 10 days later, she had a fever of 106 degrees and was dying of sepsis. She survived, Dr. Eisenberg said, but suffered a cognitive injury as a result of the severity of the sepsis as well as an acute kidney injury. After spending nearly two weeks in the hospital, Dr. Eisenberg says, she was sent to a long-term-care facility…


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