Clinic missed ectopic pregnancy signs, endangered woman’s life, suit says

Synopsis

Just a month after being told she had a viable pregnancy by Clearway Clinic in Worcester, Massachusetts in October 2022, a woman, identified only as Jane Doe, was rushed to the hospital. As she would later learn, she was hemorrhaging from an ectopic pregnancy – which was never viable, and posed a significant threat to her health. Because of the late diagnosis, the ectopic pregnancy went untreated until she arrived in the hospital, and one of her fallopian tubes ruptured as a result. 

What Jane Doe didn’t know during that initial visit is that Clearway Clinic is a so-called crisis pregnancy center, which are organizations that try to dissuade pregnant people from getting abortions. 

Reporter Praveena Somasundaram for The Washington Post paints a grim picture of the realities of crisis pregnancy centers. They are unlicensed to provide medical services, despite their marketing, and they put pregnant people like Jane Doe in danger when diagnoses go unaddressed. Jane Doe is now filing a class action lawsuit against Clearway Clinic, alleging that they did not “undertake sufficient medical measures to assure (her) that her pregnancy was in utero and thus viable.”