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(Dr. E.H. a sheitel wearing doctor gives advice for what a young person who is sleeping around could say to access birth control pills without her parents realizing the truth about why she wants them):
“If … you're finding resistance you can also work with your doctor and be like hey I also need it for my periods like even though that may not be a hundred percent truthful to the rest of the world and like you and your doctor know that like kind of the real reason, um, but if you really need birth control like that's .. one way to make it okay for the rest of the of the community as well so you should do what's what's right for you and what you need.”
Moderator: I know, I like the idea of reframing … I think that's a really helpful way of kind of going about it.
(Question was asked what a D & C is used for.)
Dr. Elizabeth -----, who unabashedly kills unborn babies for a living, begins her talk:
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“… I really wanted to talk about the safety of abortion, um, versus childbirth
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… so this is just a graph - we're really doing a very bad job at protecting, um, pregnancy capable individuals … we're doing a really terrible job protecting birthing people
… I think something that we don't really conceptualize is that pregnancy carries significant risk
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.. so just so that we're all on the same page if you've heard the term D and C dilation and curettage this is the procedure to remove pregnancy tissue from the uterus this is a very common procedure it's the same procedure we use to terminate a live pregnancy or to remove um if you've had a miscarriage
… abortion is incredibly safe - the risk of dying from a first trimester termination is about one out of a million
… but the risk of dying from a full-term pregnancy is actually much higher. Now that Roe has been reversed, it has been posited that the risk of dying from pregnancy is actually going to increase
… so let's switch gears I wanted to talk about the methods of terminating a pregnancy … so in the first trimester that's the first three months of pregnancy up to 14 weeks we can take pills which is called medical management and we typically use that up to um 11 12 weeks, or we can do a procedure which is called the dilation and curettage. In the second trimester, which is above 14 weeks, we can still do a procedure which is called a dilation and evacuation. We’ll typically do the procedures up to about 26 weeks. Also, above 14 weeks we can do what's called an induction where you go to labor and delivery and we give you medicines and you would deliver.
… this is how I counsel my patients .. I'll go through both options do you want medical management, do you want surgical management? .. I can do the vacuum the DNC in my office .. and it is very quick we can give oral pain medication … this is a suction machine on the left when we're in the operating room and then we also use little handheld vacuums when we're in the office, it doesn't make any noise. In the office it takes about five minutes, it's very easy and very safe to do .. we also can give you anti-anxiety medicine in the office for pregnancies further along
.. regarding the safety of abortion this is the same for if you have a pregnancy loss or if you are terminating a pregnancy for either fetal anomalies or for unplanned pregnancy there are no risks for infertility in the future
… so all in all pregnancy actually is dangerous um and those risks can be higher for certain groups. Induced abortion is extremely common - about one out of four women will need an abortion in the in the United States. Most people can be offered either procedural or a medical abortion and both options are very safe.”
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