Fourteen-year-old girl denied life-saving prescription refill under Arizona abortion law

[CaptainTruth]

Fourteen-year-old girl denied life-saving prescription refill under Arizona abortion law

A teenager in Arizona’s Tucson city was refused a refill of a life-saving prescription drug within 48 hours of Arizona abolishing abortions under its new law, according to her doctor.

The 14-year-old girl, a patient with debilitating rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis, had been prescribed the immunosuppressant methotrexate to fight the pain and symptoms of her disease.

But she was refused a refill of the drug after Arizona rolled out its new law against abortions on 24 September, on the basis that the drug can also be used to end ectopic pregnancies.

[link:https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/methotrexate-az-abortion-law-teenager-b2191354.html|]

[secondwind]

1. This has been resolved already. She received her prescription drug.

[Hortensis]

2. Of course she did. And others. It'll continue to pop up, though.

Every prescriber should foresee any potential problems and head them off.

[treestar]

6. exactly, many such things will pop up

and have to be resolved, leaving people in stress in the meantime. This girl even having a day or two of thinking she cannot treat her condition because the drug can also be used to end pregnancies and ectopic ones at that! These morons do not even understand what ectopic pregnancy is. Someone said it should not be termed a pregnancy, but a medical emergency. Right wingers are all about labels, so get the label pregnancy away.

[Hortensis]

7. Sounded like a good idea if doable. Medical conditions of course have

scientific names. I looked for an alternative but only found extrauterine pregnancy. Pregnancy seems to be part of all the legal definitions and laws, so there's no getting away from it. Not that pharmacy staff would be fooled by any term, and it's important that they not be, but still.... Too bad we don't have an alternative to such a politically loaded word.

[Picaro]

3. Beyond insane

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I don't even know how to process this.

Because methotrexate could be used to end ectopic pregnancies the pharmacy refused to fill the prescription.

That's totally nuts.

An ectopic pregnancy is never viable. If the mother doesn't terminate the non-viable pregnancy she most likely will die.

Ectopic pregnancies won't ever result in a baby. Even the forced birthers should be able to acknowledge this.

But in many states laws making abortion a crime are being written by men that contain no exception for the life of the mother.

Now we have a pharmacist refusing to fill a prescription that could be used to terminate an ectopic pregnancy. What kind of ghoul would be in favor of an ectopic pregnancy?

This has come very far very fast and its only going to get worse unless we can keep both the House and the Senate.

GOTV

[mercuryblues]

4. +100

This is why it was never about "saving a baby." This is about 100% control over women and their bodies. In their mind anyone who suffers and/or dies because of their insane laws and beliefs is collateral damage.

[treestar]

5. in addition to being so gung ho

that they don't want people to use a drug that could be used for abortions for something else. Above, looks like it was resolved, but it had to be since the first approach was to deny it!