"Three of the 34 hospitals said they'd just never provide abortions," for example, even though there are exceptions written into the laws. "What we hadn't anticipated is what we found – the confusion, the contradictory statements, the misinformation," Heisler says. Michele Heisler, professor at the University of Michigan and medical director of Physicians for Human Rights, who is one of the study's authors. "It's called the 'secret shopper' methodology – we called it a 'simulated patient' methodology," says Dr. To conduct the research, several young women called 34 hospitals in the state with a script, saying they were pregnant for the first time, trying to decide which Oklahoma hospital to go to for care, and wanting to understand the hospital's policies and processes for providing abortions if pregnancy complications arose. Researchers found that most hospitals could not provide any information about their policies or procedures or explain what support would be provided to doctors who determine that an abortion is necessary to save a patient's life. In the study, the Center for Reproductive Rights, Oklahoma Call for Reproductive Justice and Physicians for Human Rights surveyed 34 hospitals around the state. The resulting confusion is having dangerous consequences for women like Statton. A study published Tuesday along with a commentary in the Lancet medical journal shows hospitals all over Oklahoma are struggling to interpret the laws and create policies that comply with the state's abortion bans. Oklahoma has three overlapping abortion bans, with different and sometimes contradictory definitions and exceptions. But we cannot touch you unless you are crashing in front of us or your blood pressure goes so high that you are fixing to have a heart attack.'" "They said, 'The best we can tell you to do is sit in the parking lot, and if anything else happens, we will be ready to help you. "They were very sincere they weren't trying to be mean," Statton, 25, says. It was cancerous, though.Īt the last hospital in Oklahoma she went to during her ordeal last month, Statton says staff told her and her husband that she could not get a surgical abortion until she became much sicker. The molar pregnancy Jaci Statton had would never become a baby. A new study shows widespread confusion about abortion bans at Oklahoma hospitals. The decision triggered strict abortion bans in more than a dozen states. Anti-abortion and abortion rights activists protest in Washington, D.C.
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