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Peds Hem/Onc🎗Fellow @StJude. Fmr Chief Res @StanfordChild. Global Health 🌍 enthusiast. Product of @NotreDame☘️, @DukeGHI😈, @GUmedicine, & @StanfordPedsRes🌲
May 3, 2022 8 tweets 3 min read
TW: #Abortion, graphic descriptions

A thread 🧵 re: #RoeVWade

Several years ago while still in med school, I had a clinical rotation in a country where abortion was criminalized. My perspective on abortion is forever shaped by a clinical encounter with a 13 year old girl. She presented to the emergency room in a small rural hospital with a chief complaint of copious vaginal bleeding, accompanied by her mother and the police. I didn’t think much of that detail at the time, I assumed he just escorted them since the girl was so weak?