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Natalie Crawford, MD
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Natalie Crawford, MD
@ncrawfordmd
Fertility doctor. Board certified OBGYN/REI. Author: The Fertility Formula. Co-founder: Fora Fertility and Pinnacle Conference. Host: As a Woman Podcast
- Welcome to Texas. Today abortion, a medical procedure, is now a felony. Punishable with up to life in prison. No exceptions for rape or incest. If you don’t think this will seriously impact medical care, you are wrong. 1/
- In case you think abortion laws don’t matter: last week a pharmacist declined to fill a prescription for a patient of mine with an ectopic pregnancy citing SB8 restrictions. The same medicine that saved my life in 2013 when I had my own ectopic pregnancy 1/4
- Replying to @ncrawfordmdI have friends who are fertility doctors in Louisiana and Nebraska contemplating leaving the state - leaving their home because they can’t practice fertility medicine there safely. Listen to us. Reproductive rights matter. 4/4
- As a fertility doctor, I’m scared about what this means for IVF. The definition of life will be defined at the state level and will change the scope of my field in many places. 1/
- Replying to @ncrawfordmdThis is about more than just abortion, this is about all reproductive rights. Contraception. Medical treatment of miscarriage and ectopic pregnancies. IVF. We have so much at stake - including the safety of our patients. 3/4
- Replying to @ncrawfordmdI’ve also had pharmacists decline misoprostol (cytotec) lately which can be used for abortion, labor induction, helping a missed miscarriage (incomplete miscarriage) and more. I like to use it before hysteroscopy in non pregnant patients to make surgery easy/safer. 2/4
- Why are IVF and abortion tightly linked? IVF came into existence in a Roe world (Roe had been around almost 10 years before the first IVF baby). Roe allowed IVF - and maybe you’ve never thought of this. 1/10
- Replying to @ncrawfordmdTreatment of miscarriage. Treatment of ectopic pregnancy. Treatment of previable pregnancy loss. Access to contraception. Access to fertility care. And more. 2/
- Replying to @ncrawfordmdNothing about this is pro-life - this is forced birth. A person should not be forced to risk their life to carry a pregnancy. Pregnancy inherently has risks in every case. And people seek abortion care for terrible circumstances that you could never imagine. 5/
- The COVID vaccines do not cause infertility. Your fertility doctors have been saying this since December, but we are now saying it louder. 1/4
- Replying to @ncrawfordmdThe decision to have an abortion should be personal. You should be allowed to follow your own core beliefs with input from your doctor and family. Abortion is heath care. Politicians are making medical decisions without understanding the consequences. 6/
- Replying to @ncrawfordmdAbortion medications are used to treat incomplete miscarriage and ectopic. When your water ruptured and the pregnancy is previable you need to induce labor even if the baby has a heartbeat or terminate the pregnancy - otherwise you can become septic and die. 3/
- Replying to @ncrawfordmdThis is why @docs4fertility exists. Your doctors know what is coming. We know this is not safe. And we are not willing to have patient care compromised by politics without a fight. We support access to the full spectrum of reproductive care for all. Join us. 8/8