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MEDICAL: DISEASES: ZIKA VIRUS :
WOMEN: HEALTH :
MEDICAL: PREGNANCY: BIRTH DEFECTS :
UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY :
INDUSTRIES: PETROLEUM :
LIBERTARIANISM :
RACISM :
BIGOTRY :
EXTREMISM :
HATE GROUPS :
INTOLERANCE :
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES: NAMED PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES: DONALD TRUMP :
BLATANT FALSEHOODS:
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What Donald Trumps win could mean for women with Zika
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What Donald Trumps win could mean for women with Zika
By Jennifer Gerson
Fusion
http://fusion.net/story/369323/trump-president-zika-abortion/
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The Zika virus was already a threat to women before the election. But now
that Americans have elected a man who campaigned on the promise of
overturning Roe v. Wade, that threat could get even worse.
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For the past several months, women in certain parts of the country,
especially South Florida, have had to reckon with the effects of the Zika
crisis on their fertility and reproductive rights. According to the
Centers for Disease Control, more than one thousand pregnant women in the
United States have shown signs of infection so far.
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Its been excruciating to think about the choices these women and their
families have been forced to face as theyve grappled with the notion of
carrying a fetus that might be born with lifelong and debilitating birth
defects.
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In fact, we didnt even get a full view of these defects until days before
the election. On November 3rd, the Journal of the American Medical
Association Pediatrics released a report identifying a pattern of birth
defects appearing in children born to mothers infected with the Zika virus
during pregnancy. This grouping is now officially called congenital Zika
syndrome. It includes five types of defects seen all at once among babies
born to Zika-infected women: severe microcephaly (abnormally small head
size) with a party collapsed skull; decreased brain tissue with a specific
pattern of calcium deposits indicating brain damage; damage to the back of
the eye with a specific pattern of scarring and increased pigment; joints
with a limited range of motion, such as clubfoot; and too much muscle
tone, restricting movement soon after birth.
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But five days after that report came out, former reality television
personality Donald Trump and former Indiana governor Mike Pence, who has
said that he wants to see Roe v. Wade sent to the ash heap of history, won
the presidential election. And just like that, the circumstances around
womens reproductive rights got even more severeespecially in the wake of
Zika.
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Perhaps the most painful aspect of what pregnant women with Zika face
boils down to timing. According to guidance issued by the Centers for
Disease Control, microcephaly can typically be detected on an ultrasound
between 18 to 20 weeks of gestation at the earliest, but it more often
becomes apparent on an ultrasound during the late second and early third
trimester, somewhere between 24 to 28 weeks gestation. By that point, it
may be too late to make a decision. According to the Guttmacher Institute,
a sexual and reproductive health research and policy organization, 14
states already ban abortions after 20 weeks except in cases of life or
health endangerment to the woman. Another eight states ban abortion at 24
weeks, another two states at the start of the third trimester, and another
19 at the point of viability outside womb. Although there is no definitive
gestational age that guarantees fetal viability, roughly 95% of babies
born before 23 weeks gestation do not survive. Current data shows that
between 67% and 76% of babies born at 25 weeks gestation survive until
discharge from the hospital.
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If he keeps his campaign promises, President-elect Trump will make it
significantly more challenging for women at this stage of pregnancy to
access a full range of reproductive options. He has been vocal about his
intent to support a federal ban on so-called partial birth abortion, a
term used by anti-choice advocates to describe the medical procedure of
dilation and extraction commonly used for late-term abortion.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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