Revised July 31, 2022
Re: ECTOPIC PREGNANCIES
– Unethical versus Ethical Methods of Treatment
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UNETHICAL:
Use of Abortifacient Drug Methotrexate Kills Ectopic Babies, Causes Ectopic Pregnancy “Abortions”;
Or May Result in Severely Deformed Baby if Misdiagnosis Fails to Detect Embryo Implanted in Uterus
ETHICAL:
“Watchful Waiting/Expectant Management” and If Needed, Ethically Performed Surgery **
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** Salpingectomy not salpingostomy ( whether by laparoscopic (keyhole) surgery or by laparotomy )
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ABC News
‘Baby Born Deformed After Misdiagnosed Ectopic Pregnancy’
Jan 23, 2012
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/w_ParentingResource/baby-born-deformeind-misdiagnosed-ectopic-pregnancy/story?id=15421441
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‘Presumed diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy’
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Sep 2002
PubMed
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12220770/
“Conclusion: In an effort to save time, avoid dilation and curettage (D&C), and
treat with methotrexate, the presence of an ectopic pregnancy is often presumed.
The presumed diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy is inaccurate in almost 40% of cases. …”
[ Emphasis added ]
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‘Outcome following high-dose methotrexate in pregnancies misdiagnosed as ectopic’
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Dec 2011
PubMed
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21907957/
“Results: … All pregnancies resulted in catastrophic outcomes.” [ Emphasis added ]
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Supposedly “pro-life” bills/laws which permit use of the abortifacient drug methotrexate
to “treat” ectopic pregnancies are pieces of legislation with a serious, unacceptable flaw.
Intentional killing of a pre-birth human being, wherever that human being is located, whether in the uterus, a fallopian tube, or elsewhere (not all ectopic pregnancies are located in the fallopian tube) is unethical, unjust, and unbiblical.
So then use of the abortifacient drug methotrexate to kill the tubal ectopic zygote/embryo is a methotrexate “abortion”, and is therefore unethical, unjust, and unbiblical.
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‘Expectant management of ectopic pregnancy’
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Sep 1992
PubMed
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1386659/
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God says,
“Thou shalt not kill (murder).”
Exodus 20:13, KJV
Establish Justice.
Are Unborn Human Beings People ? Are the Unborn Persons ? ALL of them ?
If the Unborn are not Persons, then they have neither Constitutional Rights of Due Process nor of Equal Protection for their Right to Life, as do other People.
Pass Personhood Now, with No Exceptions.
There are No Exceptions to Creator God-given, inherent, unalienable, natural Personhood.
H5401, S1335
(scstatehouse.gov)
Christians for Personhood
Columbia, SC
ChristiansforPersonhood.com