AUSTIN, TX – Democratic House Representative Greg Casar is getting flamed on social media after the progressive congressman attempted to use a flawed ProPublica article to assert that “women are being left to bleed” due to anti-abortion laws in his home state of Texas.
Rep. Casar may be new to Congress, but he seems fairly seasoned in the sport of politics, opting to tow the party line regarding abortion with an August 31st post to social media claiming, “Texas women are being left to bleed because of the abortion ban. Some doctors hesitate, even on blood transfusions, out of fear. Texas Republicans knew this would happen and passed it anyway. We won’t stop fighting to restore abortion rights.”
The progressive Democrat accompanied the inflammatory post with an article from ProPublica titled, “A “Striking” Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage,” which the lede and ensuing theme of the piece paint a portrait of pro-life laws and policies resulting in dangerous outcomes for pregnant women who endure complications with their pregnancies.
Throughout the article in question, the trio of contributors - who seem to incessantly cover the topic of abortion bans in their writing for the outlet – draw a direct line from Texas’ pro-life legislation to medical professionals in the state hesitantly administering dilation and curettage procedures in cases of miscarriage because the outlet lends credence to the theory such procedures “have gotten tangled up in state legislation that restricts abortion.”
In the ProPublica theorized scenario highlighting various cases of Texas women enduring substandard and arguably abhorrent medical care, doctors in Texas are allegedly afraid to administer dilation and curettage (D&C) procedures to women who’ve endured miscarriages because the same practice is also used to terminate healthy pregnancies.
However, Texas law doesn’t prohibit D&Cs specifically, considering the procedure has multiple medical applications, and the ProPublica piece even showcases – towards the end of the article – that medical professionals who abstained from counseling patients properly and administering various procedures when prudent were running afoul of standard medical protocols.
Dr. Cynthia Mingea, who was the subject of scrutiny in the ProPublica piece due to a patient under the care of her team suffering severe blood loss due to not being counseled on potentially receiving a D&C after an unviable pregnancy was discovered, explained that the patient was the victim of protocol not being followed and never implied that Texas anti-abortion laws impacted the matter.
This tidbit of critical context wasn’t lost on critics of Rep. Casar’s misleading conclusions about Texas’ laws, with one user on social media pointing out, “No heartbeat detected, then removal of the deceased child is not considered abortion under the law & has NOTHING to do with the abortion ban.”
Amy Curtis, a contributor for the outlet Twitchy, suspects that some doctors who are abstaining from providing appropriate medical care in Texas regarding miscarriages may be intentionally doing so via an activist agenda of sorts, feigning purported concerns about D&C administrations being misinterpreted so as to propel pro-abortion policies within the state.
“If doctors aren't doing a D&C after a miscarriage, or if they are refusing to do blood transfusions, those doctors should be punished by state medical boards,” Curtis wrote, adding, “Because this writer suspects some doctors are doing this intentionally to push a pro-abortion agenda. There's no other explanation for it, because the laws are clear: care for miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies, including D&Cs, is not illegal under any abortion law.”
Rep. Casar may be new to Congress, but he seems fairly seasoned in the sport of politics, opting to tow the party line regarding abortion with an August 31st post to social media claiming, “Texas women are being left to bleed because of the abortion ban. Some doctors hesitate, even on blood transfusions, out of fear. Texas Republicans knew this would happen and passed it anyway. We won’t stop fighting to restore abortion rights.”
The progressive Democrat accompanied the inflammatory post with an article from ProPublica titled, “A “Striking” Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage,” which the lede and ensuing theme of the piece paint a portrait of pro-life laws and policies resulting in dangerous outcomes for pregnant women who endure complications with their pregnancies.
Throughout the article in question, the trio of contributors - who seem to incessantly cover the topic of abortion bans in their writing for the outlet – draw a direct line from Texas’ pro-life legislation to medical professionals in the state hesitantly administering dilation and curettage procedures in cases of miscarriage because the outlet lends credence to the theory such procedures “have gotten tangled up in state legislation that restricts abortion.”
In the ProPublica theorized scenario highlighting various cases of Texas women enduring substandard and arguably abhorrent medical care, doctors in Texas are allegedly afraid to administer dilation and curettage (D&C) procedures to women who’ve endured miscarriages because the same practice is also used to terminate healthy pregnancies.
However, Texas law doesn’t prohibit D&Cs specifically, considering the procedure has multiple medical applications, and the ProPublica piece even showcases – towards the end of the article – that medical professionals who abstained from counseling patients properly and administering various procedures when prudent were running afoul of standard medical protocols.
Dr. Cynthia Mingea, who was the subject of scrutiny in the ProPublica piece due to a patient under the care of her team suffering severe blood loss due to not being counseled on potentially receiving a D&C after an unviable pregnancy was discovered, explained that the patient was the victim of protocol not being followed and never implied that Texas anti-abortion laws impacted the matter.
This tidbit of critical context wasn’t lost on critics of Rep. Casar’s misleading conclusions about Texas’ laws, with one user on social media pointing out, “No heartbeat detected, then removal of the deceased child is not considered abortion under the law & has NOTHING to do with the abortion ban.”
Amy Curtis, a contributor for the outlet Twitchy, suspects that some doctors who are abstaining from providing appropriate medical care in Texas regarding miscarriages may be intentionally doing so via an activist agenda of sorts, feigning purported concerns about D&C administrations being misinterpreted so as to propel pro-abortion policies within the state.
“If doctors aren't doing a D&C after a miscarriage, or if they are refusing to do blood transfusions, those doctors should be punished by state medical boards,” Curtis wrote, adding, “Because this writer suspects some doctors are doing this intentionally to push a pro-abortion agenda. There's no other explanation for it, because the laws are clear: care for miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies, including D&Cs, is not illegal under any abortion law.”
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