Oklahoma Woman with Non-Viable Pregnancy Says Hospital Told Her to Sit in the Parking Lot ‘Until You Bleed Out’
Synopsis
Jaci Statton, mother of three, describes to People Magazine reporter Stephanie Emma Pfeffer the painful experience of being denied miscarriage treatment by hospitals in her home state of Oklahoma. At ten weeks pregnant, she started bleeding heavily through her jeans in her kitchen — the result of a non-viable pregnancy that required immediate treatment. Despite her deteriorating condition, doctors at multiple hospitals over the course of a week refused to perform a life-saving D&C — a medical procedure used to remove fetal tissue from the uterus.
Instead, one hospital told her to “wait in the parking lot until you bleed out.”
Jaci and her husband ended up having to drive three hours to Kansas to get an abortion. Because of the delays she experienced in getting the care she needed, she faces long-term health complications.
I just remember looking over at my husband and his head was in his hands and he was crying, ‘Why won’t they help you?’
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