A woman in regional NSW has been turned away from her closest hospital and forced to drive six hours to another hospital for a minor operation after a failed medical abortion.telehealth service The Tabbot Foundation
"You speak to doctors and nurses beforehand to make sure it is what you want and that you're not getting forced into it and you know the risks and everything. "I talked to the nurse afterwards and everything had gone to plan and there was the right amount of bleeding and I assumed it was done but you have a blood test seven days afterwards to check your levels and I had an ultrasound and that is when we found I was still pregnant," Sophie said.
A D&C is an operation which scrapes away the womb lining. It is done after an incomplete miscarriage, to remove polyps, or during a surgical abortion. He said he was told by Tamworth hospital that they would not accept Sophie as a patient due to"hospital policy"."How many other hospitals have these archaic values that determine a patient's management? This...is a D&C which they would do for miscarriages all the time.
Disgusting. She could have died.