Posted on Feb 28, 2023
To safeguard healthy twin in utero, she had to 'escape' Texas for abortion procedure
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https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/02/28/ [login to see] /abortion-texas-laws-twins-selective-reduction
Lauren Miller sensed right away that her second pregnancy was different than her first. She felt horrible.
On Aug. 20, 2022, she wrote in her journal: "I started throwing up at five yesterday morning and it won't stop. It is now the afternoon, over a full day later. I can't even keep down crackers, water, tea."
She was worried about dehydration, so she went to an E.R. near her home in Dallas. She received a bag of IV fluid and medication for the nausea and was told she had hyperemesis gravidarum – severe morning sickness. The E.R. doctor also did an ultrasound. "That's when we found out about the twins," she says.
Lauren Miller sensed right away that her second pregnancy was different than her first. She felt horrible.
On Aug. 20, 2022, she wrote in her journal: "I started throwing up at five yesterday morning and it won't stop. It is now the afternoon, over a full day later. I can't even keep down crackers, water, tea."
She was worried about dehydration, so she went to an E.R. near her home in Dallas. She received a bag of IV fluid and medication for the nausea and was told she had hyperemesis gravidarum – severe morning sickness. The E.R. doctor also did an ultrasound. "That's when we found out about the twins," she says.
To safeguard healthy twin in utero, she had to 'escape' Texas for abortion procedure
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Even though I am opposed to Abortions, this is one of the "Exceptional" circumstances when I would support a single procedure to save the other child.
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NPR is biased to say the least. I do believe this is an over hyped story with false narrative. Please correct me if I am wrong but I looked up Texas abortion laws. You can have a pregnancy reduction in Texas to save the life of the other child. Maybe some one has a better read on the law. This is what I could find. Termination of ectopic pregnancies etc are also legal. https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.245.htm
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