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‘Close to zero’: Texas woman and OB-GYN fought Texas to permit induced delivery on noviable fetus [1]
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Date: 2022-07-26
Abortion-rights activists demonstrate outside a Planned Parenthood clinic as they safeguard the clinic from a possible protest by a far-right group on July 16, 2022 in Santa Monica, California.
Elizabeth Weller and her partner James live in Houston, Texas. Weller was just 26 years old when she found out in early 2022 that she was pregnant. All was well with the pregnancy until her 18th week, when she says they fell into a “dystopian nightmare” of "physical, emotional, and mental anguish."
According to an exclusive account from NPR , on May 10, 2022, Weller’s water broke. James rushed her to the hospital, where it was confirmed via ultrasound that she’d suffered from a premature rupture of membranes. She was told by a doctor that "There's very little amniotic fluid left. That's not a good thing. All you can do now is just hope and pray that things go well."
But it wasn’t until her OB-GYN explained what was really going on that Weller realized that, even though her fetus still had a heartbeat, she was at risk of infection, and there was a strong likelihood that the fetus would die.
As NPR reports, Weller was given two options: one, “termination for medical reasons,” or two, remain in the hospital to manage her care and prevent a possible infection until she reached 24 weeks of pregnancy and the fetus reached “viability” outside of her womb. But as Dr. Alan Peaceman, a professor of maternal-fetal medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, told NPR, the chance of a fetus surviving at 18 weeks is virtually nil.
"This is probably about as close to zero as you'll ever get in medicine,” Peaceman said.
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