hi! it treats unplanned pregnancies and ages range from 11 to late 405. this is where the patients come for their initial exam. funded by private donors and local churches, services are free, including ultrasounds. but if a patient wants an abortion, they have to go elsewhere. i m doctor karysse trandem. i m on a board certified obstetrician and gynaecological surgeon. i would like to see an outright ban of abortion in america. doctor trandem trend showed us research which suggests elective abortions physically and mentally harm women. but the broad medical consensus contradicts this. the american college of obstetricians and gynaecologists states abortions are a safe medical intervention with fewer risks than childbirth. there are risks to pregnancy but they are less than the risks of having an abortion.
so, it s been eight days since i started bleeding and seven days since i saw my doctor and was told that my pregnancy wasn t viable. it has been one of the worst weeks of my life, just kind of feeling like i m in purgatory. i ve lost a fair amount of tissue and blood in the last week and so, i m hoping that everything has passed naturally. i m nervous. i want this to be over. desperate, alison drove several hours to get help from another clinic in tuscaloosa. once one of alabama s only abortion providers, since roe was overturned, it s now a non profit reproductive health services.
photo and she just told me, there s nothing we can do. this is a pregnancy thatjust, like, it s not going to make it and she got kind of choked up, actually, and she kept saying i wish there was more i could do for you and in that moment, i didn t know what that meant. i thought she was just, like, giving condolences. doctors in alabama who perform an abortion which isn t deemed to be life saving risk up to 99 years in prison. while miscarriage treatment is not part of the ban, pro choice advocates say the way the law is written makes it challenging for health workers to provide care without endangering their license. alison s doctor could ve offered her abortion medication which speeds up the miscarriage process. instead, she was forced to wait for it to happen naturally.
so talk me through if it s ok what happened next. yeah. so, it was valentine s day and i was at work and i went to the bathroom and when i wiped, i saw blood and so, i called my ob/gyn. she showed us the ultrasound photo and she just told me, there s nothing we can do. this is a pregnancy thatjust, like, it s not going to make it and she got kind of choked up, actually, and she kept saying i wish there was more i could do for you and in that moment, i didn t know what that meant. i thought she was just, like, giving condolences. doctors in alabama who perform an abortion which isn t deemed to be life saving risk up to 99 years in prison. while miscarriage treatment is not part of the ban, pro choice advocates say the way the law is written makes it challenging for health
workers to provide care without endangering their license. alison s doctor could ve offered her abortion medication which speeds up the miscarriage process. instead, she was forced to wait for it to happen naturally. so, it s been eight days since i started bleeding and seven days since i saw my doctor and was told that my pregnancy wasn t viable. it has been one of the worst weeks of my life, just kind of feeling like i m in purgatory. i ve lost a fair amount of tissue and blood in the last week and so, i m hoping that everything has passed naturally. i m nervous. i want this to be over.