Dozens of pregnant women, some bleeding or in labor, are turned away from ERs despite federal law [Video]

Bleeding and in pain, Kyleigh Thurman didn’t know her doomed pregnancy could kill her.Emergency room doctors at Ascension Seton Williamson in Texas handed her a pamphlet on miscarriage and told her to “let nature take its course” before discharging her without treatment for her ectopic pregnancy.When the 25-year-old returned three days later, still bleeding, doctors finally agreed to give her an injection to end the pregnancy. It was too late. The fertilized egg growing on Thurman’s fallopian tube ruptured it, destroying part of her reproductive system.That’s according to a complaint Thurman and the Center for Reproductive Rights filed last week asking the government to investigate whether the hospital violated federal law when staff failed to treat her initially in February 2023.”I was left to flail,” Thurman said. “It was nothing short of being misled.”The Biden administration says hospitals must offer abortions when needed to save a woman’s life, despite state …