Woman Sues Anti-Abortion 'Pregnancy Center' After Her Ectopic Pregnancy Ruptured

[RandySF]

A Massachusetts woman claims that an anti-abortion crisis pregnancy center failed to diagnose her ectopic pregnancy during an ultrasound appointment that and the pregnancy later ruptured, requiring emergency surgery to remove one of her fallopian tubes. Ectopic pregnancies are never viable and can be life-threatening; the pregnancy should have been terminated immediately.

The woman, known as Jane Doe, filed a class action lawsuit on Thursday in Worcester Superior Court alleging that Clearway Clinic in Worcester didn’t follow standard medical care. The suit also claims that Clearway engages in deceptive practices to lure in people seeking the full range of pregnancy options, when its actual purpose is just to dissuade them from getting abortions.

According to a press release, Doe thought she might be pregnant in October 2022 and wanted to get an ultrasound. She found Clearway through an online search and got an appointment later that day. A Clearway nurse did an ultrasound and said the pregnancy was both viable and in her uterus; the suit says it’s against state medical regulations for registered nurses to read ultrasounds because they’re not licensed diagnosticians. A physician didn’t see Doe, though her discharge paperwork said a medical doctor provided her care.

A month later, Doe felt shooting pain on her side and was so weak and lightheaded that her husband called 911, per the release. Emergency room doctors diagnosed her with a ruptured ectopic pregnancy and internal hemorrhage. In order to stop the hemorrhaging, doctors did emergency surgery in which they had to remove of one of her fallopian tubes. None of this should have been necessary, as legitimate medical providers would have ended Doe’s life-threatening pregnancy with medication—typically the cancer drug methotrexate.

Jezebel contacted Clearway for comment and didn’t hear back by publication time. CEO Jill Jorgensen said in a statement to Mass Live, “We cannot speak as to any individual’s medical claims or history due to HIPAA regulations.” She added that Clearway hadn’t faced an allegation like this in its more than 20 years of operation.



https://jezebel.com/woman-sues-anti-abortion-pregnancy-center-after-her-ect-1850576215

[cbabe]

1. This Nurse Wanted to Help Women Avoid Abortions. Then She Saw ..

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Feb 2, 2023December 15, 2022 Rames' account of the problems at ALC, documented in hundreds of pages of emails, cellphone photos, research papers and other materials, highlights how the lack of regulation of pregnancy centers can put women - and, in the case of HPV, potentially even their partners and babies - at risk.

[Lonestarblue]

2. One probable reason why this woman ended up at a crisis pregnancy center is that Google rakes in

millions of dollars from them to get their ads placed first when someone searches on pregnancy or abortion. She should sue Google as well for steering her to unqualified medical centers.

None of these pregnancy centers are staffed by actual doctors. They have learned how to do ultrasounds but not necessarily to interpret them correctly. They are mostly funded by the Christian right and have one purpose: to mislead women and prevent them from having an abortion.

Surely there are laws against the fraud of claiming to offer abortion when you do not. If not, we need to be passing laws regulating what these clinics can and cannot do. It is not free speech to advertise fraudulent medical treatments. These clinics should be forced to become staffed with certified medical practitioners or prevented from operating. The woman in this case is lucky she didn’t die. Sue the hell out of them.

[canuckledragger]

3. It's why I don't use google any more.

They used to be the best in search results...now you can't trust the first dozen or so because they're all paid-for ads!

[FakeNoose]

11. Totally agree with you - Google is not my choice for "googling" any more

I think they went over to the Darkside a couple years ago.

[AllaN01Bear]

12. long long time ago , when they got too big for their pants .

[Tree Lady]

4. My daughter almost died from a ectopic pregnancy

years ago and they did a D & C immediately thankfully she lives in CA but was very sick, didn't even know she was pregnant because her periods were messed up.

There are going to be deaths because of this or women that can't have future babies because it will mess up their bodies.

I hope they can win in the red states, fingers crossed!!!

[Aristus]

5. I thought it was well-known that "Crisis pregnancy centers" are staffed by anti-abortion

whack-a-doodles.

They've been using that filthy term for decades now.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

10. It's actually not well known. Even people who consider themselves politically aware have no idea how

insidious and deceptive these clinics are.

[Demobrat]

6. That poor woman.

She probably has no recourse at all. I’m willing to bet she signed away her right to sue when she signed into the clinic. Not knowingly or willingly, but the document was in among the piles of paperwork she signed before they would see her.

Willing to bet.

[marble falls]

7. These fake "clinics" need to pay for the damages done.

[liberalla]

8. I'm so sorry for that woman, and I'm glad she survived to sue the pants off them!

I hope she has a good lawyer who is of similar mind on these "crisis centers", and will win a big enough settlement to send a message to the "industry" and change how they do business.

This just burns me!

[Volaris]

9. And this is in (supposedly) blue Massachusetts...

Imagine the kind of coercion and medical damage, happening in a mike Pence-influenced Indiana, or OK or Florida...

They WILL ask for a nationwide abortion ban (DESPITE DOBBS SPECIFICALLY kicking this back to the States), and they won't stop till either it happens, or they get so electorally destroyed in places like Nebraska and Wyoming, that they own the fact they're just simply in the minority, and to stfu about it.

I'm of the opinion, that they will opt to fire guns, before they acknowledge that they got OUTVOTED.

AGAIN.

[Ligyron]

13. It's true that Florida has the worst governor in the US.

He's making a big show of demonstrating his more than MAGA bona fides to the rest of the country but he's being sued or blocked in court or just flat out widely ignored an awful lot.

I think the old guard Palm Beach small government less tax and regulation type republicans are flat out embarrassed about the whole MAGA crowd but of course, they'll take the rubes votes.