🧵 This pseudonymous individual claims to work in emergency medicine & has been outright admitting to falsifying patients’ medical records to protect from liability of botched induced abortions or complications from induced abortions.
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Correct med coding is very important for patients to receive proper treatment, as proceeding w/ incorrect treatment or delaying proper treatment can endanger patients’ lives.
There are distinct ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes for several types of abortive outcomes to pregnancies:
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O00 Ectopic pregnancy
O01 Hydatidiform mole
O02 Other abnormal products of conception
O03 Spontaneous abortion (miscarriage)
O04 Complications following induced abortion
O07 Failed attempted induced abortion
O08 Complications following ectopic and molar pregnancy
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Of those codes, O04 & O07 relate to botched induced abortions. This supposed medical practitioner claims symptoms are no different than those of O03 (miscarriage); however, that is often not true, plus similar symptoms could even be an undiagnosed O00 (ectopic pregnancy).
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Why would a supposed medical practitioner explicitly falsify medical records?
The claim is that women could be charged w/ crimes for receiving abortions (ICD-10-CM Z33.2); however, liability would fall on providers.
Nearly all states don’t even criminalize self-inductions.
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States that do criminalize self-inductions mostly do so after viability or as components of felonious actions, like practicing medicine w/o a license or black market acquisition of controlled substances. There’s also the crime of improper disposal of human remains past ~20wk.
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If the women who receive induced abortions aren’t the targets of criminality, then that leaves the providers. It is common for providers to explicitly tell women to lie if/when they have complications. This breaks the chain-of-custody in liability.
This deception leads to increased complications & multiple follow-up hospital visits to resolve what could have been easily identified if the truth was told in the beginning.
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I briefly mentioned undiagnosed ectopic pregnancies: This is a growing concern w/ telemed abortions (or abortifacient trafficking) in which a woman can receive Mifepristone or other abortifacients w/o verifying intrauterine pregnancy first. (MO had a bill on this last year.)
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Since the symptoms of chemical abortions & ruptured ectopic pregnancies can be very similar, a woman could be internally bleeding but not seek medical care, as the symptoms could be mistaken for what’s expected in an induced abortion.
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The CDC’s abortion surveillance program estimates ~6 women/yr die from induced abortion among voluntary reporting that covers ~75% of the US. The actual annual deaths are undoubtedly much higher if nearly 2/3 ER visits are miscoded as miscarriages.
The deceptive practices by abortion providers should concern everyone, no matter the views on legality of elective induced abortions. Sadly, however, there are those (like the individual in the initial tweet) who don’t care about women dying, as long as the ends are met.
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This abortionist is a prime example of what I discussed in this thread. She wants to hide from liability for her botched abortion procedures. Initially, the ER staff may not be able to discover what actually happened, but when they do, it could be too late to save the patient.
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Several other states also had language in their criminal abortion statutes that likely extended to implicating means of externally harming pregnant women and causing them to miscarry. Unlike the states in the map, they did not directly treat the unborn children as the victims.
Last week, I drafted proposed legislation for Ohio (& emailed a copy to my state representative, @realJeffLaRe).
This bill borrows ideas from several other states to address protection of rape victims, expansion of prenatal child support, & tax benefits for pregnant women.
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I am going to briefly discuss the aims & influences of this bill in each of its 5 pages to solicit ideas. Feel free to adapt it to your own state, wherever applicable.
Section 1 begins by addressing victims of rape for which a child has been conceived.
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This has been a hotly-discussed topic for the past decade, as the general public was made aware that most states had deficiencies in their laws which could allow a rapist to later claim parental rights (including visitation) for a child was conceived during the crime.
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Here’s why so many are lying that bans on induced abortions prevent treatments for ectopic pregnancies or after miscarriages:
They’ve lived a pseudo-religion for decades, sacrificing their own offspring to ward off storms & preserve the illusions of prosperity.
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If they can convince any women to fear emergency treatments & die, they’ll evangelize against the heretical bans & grow their church membership. In the Church of Abortion, the women’s deaths are necessary for The Cause.
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Church members evangelize w/ grand myths & legends of those who have been snatched from the darkness & strife through the Holy Sacrament. They preach these parables, but many heretics question their veracity in details. Thus, only the uninformed are sought.
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Some discussion on the scuffle over “pinch to zoom” in the #Rittenhouse trial:
We take this technology for granted in the modern age with little thought to what goes into it. The debate on the accuracy of providing a zoomed-in digital video to the jury was very valid.
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Interpolating pixels is always guesswork, as the original pixels are not present. There have been numerous algorithms & entire hardware acceleration tools developed over the decades to fill in such details.
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You can look in any higher-end photo editor and see image resizing settings like “weighted average”, “Gaussian”, “cubic”, etc. Some may have proprietary “smart” filters. No matter what method is used, it’s taking some means of filling in the gaps.
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An earlier nugget discussed Rep John Bingham as the author of the 14th Amendment’s contentious 1st section & that he held firm belief in the Constitution protecting natural rights, something afforded to the unborn, as explained by Supreme Court Justice James Wilson in 1790.
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That hinted Bingham’s intent for “person” in the 14th Amendment to apply to the unborn as victims in criminal law. He elsewhere stated his intent for the amendment to protect all human beings equally, another inference of the unborn.