ICU

By the time she went to the third ER, she was bleeding and in acute distress; still, she was given not one but two ultrasounds to confirm that there was no fetal heartbeat to be found before she was admitted to the ICU.

There are scores of other women, too, who live in states that ban abortion and have been denied the care they need, were committed to the ICU near death, or denied safe postabortion care and died, or lost their uteruses, or had their fallopian tubes removed—all preventable, but for abortion bans.

“Dr. Totorica states there is a slight chance patient may need to go to ICU and he wants the bedside ultrasound to be done stat for sure before admitting to room.”

When doctors wheeled Crain into the ICU at 11:20 a.m.,

“At our peak we ran out of physical bed spaces and had to resort to putting two patients into one space,” one ICU nurse at a different hospital told Prof Fong.