Abortions in the 3rd trimester are almost always done for fetal anomalies. There is no 39 week “I’m bored so I’m having an abortion” abortion. These procedures are $20k plus. Seriously. Stop fetishizing the fetus.
$600 for my son who lived about 3 minutes. He received no medical care. At all. As he died almost immediately he didn’t get enrolled in my insurance plan, so I got the bill. From the hospital where I was a doctor.
STOP TRYING TO MAKE "ECTOPIC PREGNANCIES ARE BABIES TOO" A THING.
If you have never treated a woman with a belly full of blood from an ectopic you should shut the fuck up and sit down and learn before you get someone killed.
I hate to say this but I think we need a 3-4 week hard lockdown including no air travel. I'm despondent at the time we have wasted, and I know we have no leadership to do this. But otherwise it is just going to be whack-a-mole with hot spots.
If your goal is to reduce abortion you need:
-free, accessible contraception
- early, accurate sex ed
- free, quality maternity care
- to to reduce poverty
- reduce domestic violence
Abortion laws only reduce safe abortion.
The hypocrisy is stunning.
A fetus is not a baby.
A fetus is not an unborn or a preborn baby or child.
If your goal is to legislate medical care you have to use medical terminology.
I will fucking call you out each and every time.
Someone should tell self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane. Half of the articles in Annals of Internal Medicine are pushing for gun control. Most upsetting, however, the medical community seems to have consulted NO ONE but themselves.
I was just asked to be on The National to discuss Roe and abortion...and then I found out it would be a panel with a "pro-life/anti-abortion" voice. I am livid and sent this reply. I couldn't care less if this means I will not be asked back to the CBC. It needed to be said.
I delivered at 22 weeks into a toilet. It is panic. Absolute panic. My body told me it was a bowel movement. I was in a hospital and an OB/GYN and all I could do was scream. The fetus is very small. I can see someone doing this. It's not abusing a corpse. FFS
This is heartbreaking. A woman in Warren, Ohio, has been charged with abuse of a corpse for trying to plunge a toilet after having a miscarriage at 22 weeks while using the restroom.
Unknown 204 call, so I was expecting bad news.
My dad died.
He was 90 and was approved a few days ago for medically assisted dying. It’s all very complicated. In a lot of ways.
I’m a doctor and there have been times when I have been unable to navigate the complexities of American health care. My kids were on oxygen for a year, but they exhausted their oxygen benefits after 6 months. How does one “figure” that out?
The abortion law in Canada in the 1969 and more recently in Ireland were both changed because of empathy. In Canada, the coroner of Ontario was so damn sick of seeing dead women he held an inquest for every abortion death. Wanted the public to see the carnage. 1/
If your child was getting chemo for cancer and that nurse infected them with COVID and your child died, would you still say “Freedom is everything and you must never give it up”?
Well, actually…dental floss size bottoms don’t always work to contain the majesty of labial cleavage. As a gynecologist I welcome people having access to a little more gusset. Are you saying that labia spilling out of bikini bottoms IS something kids should see?
No woman needs to tuck anything. We have vaginas & we are the only ones who do. Oh and we don’t need our kids seeing this sh&% when we walk down the aisle at Target.
@jzaraterod
How many nurses and doctors do you see that wear “Christian paraphanilia” in a workplace/hospital setting???
If y’all can wear rainbow pins, then shouldn’t a Christian be able to wear a Jesus pin?
What reduces abortions?
Free, accessible contraception.
That’s it.
Study after study tells us this.
Laws simple penalize women.
If you claim to be pro life and your mission is not free, accessible contraception you are a forced birther.
Don’t ever fucking lecture me about abortion.
I’ve saved the life of a woman who had a shitty procedure because of legal restrictions.
Done abortions after 24 weeks.
Begged a politician to be allowed to save a woman’s life.
I have no interest in your bullshit and ignorance.
Just so you know my publisher is not allowed to use the word "vagina" to promote my book on
@twitter
. The image can have it, but they are not allowed to use "vagina" in the text.
Dear
@jack
,
Vagina is an anatomical term and not a "dirty" word.
Jen
Women are literally punished for their reproductive biology. They are paid less. They struggle to get childcare. They can’t access the care they need, because a 5 month wait for a 15 min appointment isn’t care. Their medical concerns aren’t studied adequately. 1/
We have a global fertility crisis.
In a new study published in Lancet, we are at the precipice of a fertility crisis.
By 2050, three-quarters of countries are forecast to fall below the population replacement birth rate of 2.1 babies per female.
By 2100, just six countries are…
Babies are not ripped from thee womb moments before birth. That is a lie. I am an OB/GYN trained in abortion after 24 weeks so I get to say that.
#SOTU
#ProLie
#StateoftheUterus
Reporters who ask “what about 3rd trimester abortions” should be told to give examples of what they have personally read about that is troubling them. The 13 year old rape victim because it took that long to ge emancipated? The 33 year old whose fetus has no kidneys?
19 years ago today I was laying in a bed with sepsis, too ill to go to the NICU to see my boys who were born shortly after midnight by c-section, who weighed 783 g and 843 g. I thought this is just gonna not end well. They’re heading to college in a few weeks. All the feels.
When a man calls a woman nasty when she was prepared, appropriately confident, and took an offensive position what he really means is her competence frightens him.
Fellow doctors of twitter, have you ever written a letter stating your patient will be healthy for more than 2 years? And where can I take a Predictive Medicine fellowship?
You are a liar. No one is advocating for infanticide. You are evil to twist newborn palliative care. Why do you hate terminally ill babies and their parents so much?
As Democrat Governors in NY & VA advocate for late term abortion & even infanticide - & Democrats in Congress refuse to allow a vote on the Born-Alive bill - TODAY in Times Square an ultrasound will be shown for all to see, demonstrating the miracle of life.
#AliveFromNewYork
Surgeons like me wear masks for 12 hours straight with no breaks. I even wore a mask when I was operating while pregnant with triplets. What you are describing is anxiety and you can seek care for that.
No no no! I had to wear a mask throughout my inevitably long haircut on Thursday. I felt sick, claustrophobic, had a mild panic attack. Imagine if you are already claustrophobic, autistic, depressed etc. Really, no.
Hi
@jack
for the safety of the country and to prevent runs on medications can you please suspend
@realDonaldTrump
’s account. These kinds of tweets are going to cause chaos and mass panic. If not, can you at least delete this tweet and tweets of his that involve medications?
Sen. Bernie Sanders: "I think all over the world people are looking at the United States and wondering what is going on, what is the mental health situation in America where time after time after time we're seeing indescribable horrors."
A 16 year-old in Alabama had an abortion at 6 weeks even though her 19 year-old boyfriend opposed it. Now he's being allowed to sue on behalf of the fetus, and the case could redefine what it means to be a person in America. By
@arianaeunjung
@EmilyWax
I am pro abortion.
There is nothing shameful or bad or wrong about the procedure, whether medical, surgical or induction.
If it is needed, it is needed.
The birth control pill contributed massively to the economic gains achieved by women, so I could see why misogynistic serial impregnators would be against it.
How about follow none of this advice.
Your vagina is naturally fresh, anyone who says otherwise is representing the patriarchy.
Feminine washes are a scam.
I'm the expert.
The end.
Hi
@Paula_White
I am an OB/GYN and would love to learn about satanic pregnancies. Can you send me the spell book (I promise to Venmo the $) so I can learn?
Regards,
Jen Gunter MD
Hi, surgeon here. Just spent all morning in a mask in the OR. Totally fine. I have been wearing a mask in the OR for > 30 years and I can even manage it with one kidney! No effect on oxygen. So breathe easy, wear a mask and be kind.
Hi Matt. I'm a doctor. I think you are having some trouble, so allow me to help. Gender is not defined by whether you have a uterus/ovaries or penis/scrotum. So now you have a scientific opinion from a medical expert!
Okay so females can have functioning male reproductive organs, you say. Well that’s just completely laughably wrong and anti-scientific in every conceivable way, but aside from that, it leads to another question: what is the objective difference between a male and a female?
Hey
@TheVIew
I would like to come on and have a real discussion about abortion.
Hey twitter, can you retweet this to see if we can get their attention?
Following an abortion, women are:
34% more likely to develop anxiety disorders
37% more likely to have depression
81% more likely to have mental problems
110% more likely to abuse alcohol
155% more likely to commit suicide
Mothers, fathers, and children deserve better
I'm reading your weight loss book now.
On page 105 you recommend writing down 60 times a day for 3 days: "Dear God, please feed my hunger and restore my right mind."
Page 171, fat is "a repository of twisted, distorted thoughts and feelings that didn't have anywhere else to go."
So let’s state it again. I’m pro medicine. I’m pro science. I’ve never told anyone not to take medicine. I’ve never fat-shamed anyone. And today there’s a new one: no I don’t support Scientology. The machinery of mischaracterization is in high gear now. Gee, did I upset someone?
If we cut your anal sphincter so you intermittently leaked stool and also damaged your pelvic floor so every time you coughed you leaked urine, what would you call it? A gift?
Hey
@Jack
,
My publisher is still getting promoted tweets for The Vagina Bible with the word “vagina” refused or accepted then removed 3 days later by
@twitter
.
White supremacists are ok, but the vagina is profane? This is a problem.
You know where to find me.
Jen
I’m 55 today! As a young woman I thought that was ancient and would be awful. Now, I know it’s pretty kick ass. I didn’t realize how much of my view of aging was shaped by the patriarchy. Welcome across the crimson bridge! There is a lot of clarity here.
I’ve packed a fire kit. Passports, birth certificates, cash and a few mementos so we can grab and go. It’s a tinder box outside and it’s raining ash. I’ve drilled the kids on what to do and the safest place to run should it come to that and I am not home. This so where we are.
“A decline of public morals in the United States will probably be marked by the abuse of the power of impeachment as a means of crushing political adversaries or ejecting them from office.”
Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835
I’m fucking sick of doctors lying about fake therapies for covid. Honestly, this is unprofessional behavior and we need to see the professional medical societies and state medical boards stepping up.
Our taxpayer dollars should NEVER go to funding abortion!
I'm proud to stand
@RepRosendale
against paying to murder babies in the womb with our taxpayer dollars.
I’m OPPOSED to this government-funded abortion bill!
Period diarrhea is the WORST. That was me. It's due to the prostaglandins that are released. I learned that in medical school when I was 20 and I so wish I'd known it when I was 14. Knowing WHY your body is doing something is so helpful even if medically doesn't fix anything.
Dear AG Barr, I volunteer to apply capsaicin, the active ingredient in pepper spray and definitely a chemical, to your rectal mucosa and then you can tell us your thoughts on whether or not it’s an irritant.
"Pepper spray is not a chemical irritant. It's not chemical" -- AG Barr uses painstaking distinctions to defend the use of force against protesters near the White House last Monday
I will hate with my dying breathe every single politician who chose to ignore this pandemic, from failing to provide financial aid to lack of PPE, to their lack of laws and enforcing laws about gatherings and travel. We could be done. Instead we have 2,000 people a day dying.
I’ve done abortions after 24 weeks.
For several years I lived in a state with no gestational age limit.
I have never done one that was not medically indicated.
I was never approached by any woman to do a non medically indicated abortion.
I never understood the human decency of 2nd and 3rd trimester abortions until I delivered my own son and watched him die.
It broke me.
It is a kindness to offer women an alternative where they don’t have to live it. To feel it. To see it.
I don’t want to hear how “pro life” you are unless you’ve donated a kidney. Pregnancy imposes a greater risk than donating a kidney, so go out and save a life.
It really does not matter if a fertilized egg is a person or not. As long as I can’t force you to donate a kidney or bone marrow or part of your liver to save a life, you can’t force anyone to risk their life and health with a pregnancy.
Me, talking to a guy on the phone, explaining I’ve been married twice.
My son Victor walks into the room and says, “That’s because no man can tame you.”
You should see the ultrasound image of my son, taken a day before he was born and then died? And the picture I have of him after he died, dressed in an outfit so he doesn’t look so dead? You are turning his palliative care into propaganda. You should know what you lie about.
As Democrat Governors in NY & VA advocate for late term abortion & even infanticide - & Democrats in Congress refuse to allow a vote on the Born-Alive bill - TODAY in Times Square an ultrasound will be shown for all to see, demonstrating the miracle of life.
#AliveFromNewYork