WFAA reported that Makayla Thomas had prayed for years to become a mother, and was thrilled when she found out she was expecting. “I was like, ‘Oh my gosh I’m finally pregnant!’” she recalled. “We’ve been together for 11 years.”

In June, Thomas began having abdominal pain, and was diagnosed with a kidney infection, possibly due to an untreated urinary tract infection (UTI). She visited Texas Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, Texas, three times over two weeks, and by June 27th, was discharged by doctors, who told her all she needed was antibiotics. Two days later, at 26 weeks pregnant and with her pain not improving, Thomas decided to go somewhere else: Preston Hollow Emergency Room, a freestanding emergency room.

“I thought, I’m going to go to the emergency room, and hope they can do something about this pain and kidney infection,” she said. “Never at that moment did I think I was going through labor.”

Once at the ER, Thomas not only had abdominal pain, but vaginal bleeding. As the pain got worse, she felt like she needed to push, and delivered her baby, there in the emergency room by herself. “I was just like, ‘Oh my God! Did I push out my baby?” she said. She shared cell phone videos of what happened with WFAA. […]

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But it’s clear that this storyline wasn’t given much critical thought; after all, if pro-lifers believe destroying unused embryos is murder, then it wouldn’t logically hold that they would bomb an IVF clinic filled with these stored, unused embryos.

As Newsbusters reported, in the episode, a white man wearing a “Jeremy 15” bracelet was said to be the bomber, with three characters — Detectives Jalen Shaw (Mehcad Brooks) and Vincent Riley (Reid Scott), and Lieutenant Jessica Brady (Maura Tierney) — discussing the eyeroll-inducing, clichéd meaning behind the bracelet:

Brady: Was he able to give you a description of the bomber?

Shaw: One that fits half of New York City. […]

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Trust Women called 911 on October 21st to report a woman experiencing complications from a “pretty painful” procedure which may have caused a uterine perforation.

During the 911 call, the staffer was oddly evasive, and seemingly tried to downplay the severity of what happened. Additionally, much of the information had been redacted.

“So we’re here at Trust Women, and we had a [redacted]. We are thinking a possible perforation and, per policy, we are just going to transfer the patient out, just for extra safety,” the staffer said. “Patient is stable … she is awake, alert, oriented, last vital signs, blood pressure [redacted], and she’s on room air. Alert and oriented times four [giggles]. No syncope episodes, nothing happened during the procedure, was pretty painful minus all the medications we could give her, so, um, I mean… but for the most part, she is awake and alert and oriented, and no complications.”

“Besides the possible perforation doctor is seeking,” she added. […]

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Rebecca Gibron is CEO of Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawai’i, Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky (PPGNHAIK), the largest geographic affiliate in the abortion chain. In the Indiana Capital Chronicle, she argued that a lack of access to abortion has prevented women from getting breast cancer screenings.

Right away, this should cause us to see the obvious: if certain “health care” businesses had to ultimately close because they could no longer end the lives of preborn children, then this is evidence that this grisly ‘care’ was the main thing keeping their businesses afloat — not providing actual lifesaving cancer screenings, and not even providing things like contraceptives and STD testing.

“I can’t say this enough: Breast cancer screenings are critical for early detection and saving lives,” Gibron concluded. “Planned Parenthood plays a vital role by offering these screenings during wellness exams and anytime a patient expresses concern. With fewer providers available, everyone must stay proactive about their health. If you have concerns about your breast health, don’t wait—schedule a screening with your provider today.”

Does Planned Parenthood help women with breast cancer?

Gibron made sure to present Planned Parenthood as a legitimate health care provider upon which millions of women rely, including for breast cancer prevention and treatment. This could not be further from the truth… and Planned Parenthood’s own annual reports prove it. […]

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CNN tagged along to a hotel conference room in Philadephia to observe a training session in which medical students were taught how to carry out manual vacuum aspiration (MVA) procedures using papayas. The MVA procedure can be used in the early weeks of pregnancy for several things: to treat a miscarriage, to take a sample of the uterine lining for testing, and also for elective abortions.

CNN Producer Alexandra King said 18 students, who all appeared to be female, were participating in the training and had flown in from pro-life states.

Hands-on training myths

The students complained to CNN that they aren’t receiving “hands-on” abortion training at their medical schools; Complex Family Planning Specialist Dr. Alhambra Frarey claimed medical students are being cheated, and women are put in danger because of this. “People may need an abortion because they’re facing a life-threatening pregnancy complication,” she claimed. “If you don’t know how to do it under routine circumstances, you certainly don’t know how to do it when somebody’s life is on the line.”

However, not every medical school provides hands-on training in medical procedures. The first two years usually involve preclinical training in which potential future doctors learn about basic medical concepts, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). It isn’t typically until they move on to the clinical portion of training in the last two years of their medical education that they begin clinical rotations, where they receive hands-on experience in medical care. […]

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The Charlotte Lozier Institute’s (CLI) latest national pregnancy center report, “Hope for a New Generation,” compared 2022 results with its 2019 (pre-Dobbs) report. Findings included the fact pregnancy centers served nearly 975,000 clients with an estimated service value of $358 million at no cost to those clients.

Updates to that 2022 report show the total number of client contacts, in-person and virtual, amounted to more than 16 million and that eight in 10 pregnancy center locations offer medical services.

“When you think about 16 million occasions that pregnancy centers interacted caring for women, men, and families in one year, it speaks to the reach of the 2,750 centers we studied and their impact on communities,” said Moira Gaul, CLI associate scholar. “This result which is a new metric we studied was powerful to see.” […]

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The study, entitled “Congenital heart defects in children born after assisted reproductive technology: a CoNARTaS study,” began with the premise that “Children born after assisted reproductive technology (ART) have worse perinatal outcomes compared with spontaneously conceived children.” The researchers went on to investigate whether children conceived through IVF have a higher risk of congenital heart defects, defined in the study as “structural anomalies of the heart and intrathoracic vessels during pregnancy and birth,” as compared with children who were conceived naturally.

Researchers cross-linked data from national ART registries, medical birth registries (MBRs), national patient registries (NPRs), cause of death registries, and birth registries from the four countries, examining data of all the countries’ live-born children, and the birth years of the children generally spanned from 1984-2015.

Out of the 7,747,637 children studied, 171,735 were conceived with ART. Researchers studied the health outcomes of children conceived with ART who were implanted in the womb after being frozen at the embryo stage, as well as children who were implanted in the womb without previously having been frozen. No link was found between congenital heart defects and the fact that some of the children conceived with IVF were frozen as embryos. […]

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