An OB/GYN Corrects Abortion Myths

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As a man can suggest to up most jobs world where on-demand abortion is no longer mandated nationwide. There is a lot of confusion and sometimes incorrect information out there, the American Association of pro-life obstetricians and gynecologists has created a helpful document that separates the facts from fiction Dr. Susan Bain is here to discuss that resource which is called negative versus fact correcting misinformation on maternal medical care, Dr. Bain as an OB/GYN who is in practice for 25 years in the Greenville area. She currently serves as the medical director at choices women's center in Wilson where she oversees the medical aspects of the center and sees patients with unintended pregnancies. Dr. Susan Bain. Welcome to family policy matters to vault what is an important for all of us to read this document that you guys created and correct so much of this misinformation that's out there.

Well, I can coordinate and then you can aerate a lot of information out there, and we believe women deserve the best possible medical care and information about their health care, so that why the produce and provide information for them. Well I did anybody else who really want to understand. I really appreciate that because I know a lot of the arguments that are made by people who support abortion are very convincing unless you know the other side. And so that's what you do in this document.

Let's start first with the myth that you discussed first in your publication that abortion is an essential health care service. We hear that all the time. So is it before I met Yolanda Dan or talking about when we say the word abortion because abortion is used in a wide variety go wait in medicine.

If the woman company early in her pregnancy and keep cramping or bleeding, but everything looks final, founding, he has a threatened abortion is somebody new Mary. She had what we call a spontaneous abortion. What were really talking about the Downs opinion is completely different where only talking about elective or induced abortion, which are performed with the intention of ending the life of the baby is really the goal of the abortion.

It could produce a dead baby so now it is never guaranteed for a to do an elective abortion to provide complete medical care for women other myths that we hear pro-abortion advocate suggesting is that unrestricted abortion is necessary for doctors to provide life saving care for pregnant women. But you don't agree with that idea yelling that he wanted an important thing for us to talk about him glad yeah that question yeah I've been out in gynecology for 25 years I treated thousands of women and hundreds with life-threatening medical situation and never once have I had to perform an elective abortion in order to help save her life. Fact is that elective abortion is not lifesaving medical care and when medically necessary to treat women in the situation we respect both the patient lives and a big party. The timing of when the mom gets sick. The mom is thinking the baby is viable with that 22, 23 week. We can actually deliver that baby and both the mom and the baby can be cared for if the baby is really premature baby may need to go to the NICU or neonatal and could carry the baby. What we call around viability and nicotine connect to the day doing the baby born to decide baby.

That they take it or not, the baby too young to survive we can get a lifesaving induction. Mom would give birth to a baby would be too young to survive the family to hold that baby love that baby think by greed, even at a funeral completely different than saving a mother's life without providing that same compassionate care to the baby.

Those who support abortion and who are perpetuating these myths they know better than this.

You cannot tell me you know what they're saying is untrue. So I me. I think sometimes the general public. Maybe doesn't know any different, but the people who are even the doctors there are doctors who are perpetuating this myth. One is that what is the point of that for them so you care more about the truth then being right, and family.

The root of much of the information is actually coming from the health professional American colleges OB/GYN which is in for years, a leading medical organization for women healthcare they are perpetuating many of the myth that healthcare practitioners are being interviewed really have to go to this summer hand and even if it disagrees with what they personally believe good research actually cares about the truth.

So let's talk about another myth that you tackle in this downloadable document. It's great is easy to access is that restrictions on abortion are an intrusion on the relationship between a doctor and the patient you were OB/GYN gynecologist for 25 years. Do you think that's true. I do not abortion or an intrusion on the relationship between a doctor and patient is that most abortion providers have no previous relationship with the patient after the abortion they can leave the medical care to other physician who either have a prior relationship, or who work in the local emergency department and it is not an intrusion on the doctor-patient relationship. I recently actually had a patient of mine. His daughter saw me on television during an interview and she turned her mom and she said that was my first doctor and it made me smile when I thought about that because right, and OB/GYN can be cared for to patient and go client matter and that a real doctor-patient relationship.

So another myth that maternal mortality rates will rise under more restrictive abortion laws. Is that true once again.

It is in the data really interesting that when you restrict abortion not lead to an increase in maternal mortality in it to make sure everyone understands that the PD fear center for the control that is kind. The death of a woman during a pregnancy or within a year afterwards every country where abortion was illegal and made illegal internal mortality actually decreased and did abortion mortality because fewer women had elective abortion email. Abortion is illegal in the United States for nearly 50 years and we maintain one of the absolute worst mortality rates in the world. So we need a shift from using elective abortion is our solution to really getting it root causes that to why we have such high maternal mortality. We have such big issues with access to quality healthcare. We have issues with education in terms of women being able to read the instructions follow the instruction we need women to have better prenatal care earlier so that if they get sick, we can identify an earlier so many better ways to address maternal mortality bank to use elective abortion is that solution I think you're making a really good point because that is also one of the accusations that pro-abortion people make toward the pro-life movement that we only care about the baby and that we oppose increasing healthcare so you feel like that's an important step for us to make if we truly are pro-life. You know we've been being probed are we care about both the mom and the baby, and we can't make it work and at that policy that limit the ability to have elective abortions.

We have got to address the years I did the full gamut of the UN practice and now basically just the women with unintended pregnancy and the most common reason for coming in and this is what the research is to wait for few economic factors, they can afford to have the date of the social support for the baby. The timing is not right, they couldn't afford daycare so there's just so many issues we were thinking that policy that we've got a really address that had family-friendly workplace is that female is pregnant is welcome there, and she knows they'll be maternity leave, paternity leave, her father, the baby of the trap healthcare is a benefit of the work site that we have a long way to go but this is a great start to try to create a society where we really care about the entire family and these policy changes are the state. Why are they a federal thing. Both I'm a firm believer in until I really like our neighborhood and local businesses, get it talking will come last year and and I called for us to be the first ProCare city in the whole called it ProCare. Can we truly take two camps are subdivided pro-life and pro-choice noun come very well together.

I believe they have a lot more in common than what they think and a lot of it has to do with the policy that can promote and take away the barriers natural biological fact that women have baby and women also can contribute to society so many ways in the workplace and so we have to celebrate that we have to rethink what is the need for a woman to be able to be a mom and a great employee love that idea of the ProCare city that we don't have to wait for state lawmakers or federal lawmakers, a city could take this on, or even just local businesses right if somebody considers themselves pro-life, making sure they have these kinds of policies a little bit about the fact that you mentioned that you are the medical director now for pregnancy resource Center a lot of things you'd like you said you been 25 years as an OB/GYN you worked for many years with the Brody school of medicine at ECU. What is this like now being able to intersect almost daily with women who are in quite a different position. Maybe then you've seen before.

Is this a rewarding time of your life for you literally where I feel like I have found: for years the women I saw they were planning to carry and now everyone I he comes and cared conventional loan. Often time in such a vulnerable play and to be able to walk beside her with great medical care in a nonjudgmental way incredibly rewarding and I feel so called fake my life.

I'm 57 probably be kind and the lack however 20 years of full-time work. I know it is her second time.

Is it that I've been placed.

Women enter here more so I'm assuming that you would highly recommend people volunteering and getting involved in these pregnancy resource centers that we have literally donning the entire state. Yeah, we do need their belief. 3000 across the nation and they started off for Claymore or providing social services and diapers intimidated physical needs of women and they had grown inconvenient in the medical clinic and that's what we have converted to and will we provide pregnancy test registered nurse that works with me.

I'm a board-certified individual GYN.

We have client advocates are actually nonmedical.

Using the model that is often times the cross healthcare where you have peer education network with people and whether they working for the views of the VA and has a lot of peer and get though we have advocates to have a heart to work with these women, they may have had an abortion and fell.

They may have adopted a child because they couldn't have their own but they are all drawn there because we really want great care for the women to love them and know that even hope is making his life, but we never pressured them to do that and we left another door open. They need to come back and talk. The equipment talk about it. There are strong data that look at the long-term mental health threat that happened with abortion and some women will struggle with that. We are about out of time. Can you tell our listeners where they can go to find this wonderful resource of myth versus fact correcting misinformation on maternal medical care which was provided by the American Association of pro-life obstetricians and gynecologists absolutely are fighting a a PLG.or anything-myth versus fact that we able to act and share with other people pray Dr. Susan Bain, thank you so much for being with us today on family policy matters policy matters.

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