Doctors know how to treat ectopic pregnancy in Oklahoma. So why are patients still dying?

Doctors know how to treat ectopic pregnancy in Oklahoma. So why are patients still dying?

An exam room at Stanton Healthcare, an anti-abortion crisis pregnancy center in Meridian, Idaho, is pictured. (Photo by Otto Kitsinger for States Newsroom)An ectopic pregnancy is not supposed to be a death sentence. As an emergency physician, I know exactly what is at stake when a patient comes into the ER with one. An ectopic pregnancy occurs when a pregnancy implants somewhere it can not grow safely, usually in a fallopian tube. If it continue…