Also um... it's not hard to figure out who was responsible, because DNA.
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Seeing folks pointing out that not all women show their pregnancies. This is true! But caring for a bed-bound female patient of reproductive age would, I assume, involve menstrual health. Did no one notice she didn't menstruate for almost a year?
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If she’s bed bound and big she probably didn’t show
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That's a fair point. But part of caring for a female patient is caring for her menstrual health - changing pads, etc. You would think someone would notice she hadn't menstruated in several months.
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Nurse here. Regular or not, 9 months is a long time to go without a period. I know pregnancy was the last thing on their mind, but a regular lack of a period should have been noted in her chart. And f/u testing to see if underlying issues or early menopause was at play.
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Serious question for you: does a persistent vegetative state ever have an impact upon hormonal cycles? Do most patients continue to have periods?
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As long as the pituitary gland or hypothalamus is not injured, hormone production should not be affected. However bodily stress and medications can affect cycles.
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Regardless, this poor woman has been suffering for 14 years, and for some sick excuse of a human to victimize her in such a way is simply horrific.
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My thought exactly. This is rape. Don't pretty it up by calling is sexual assault. She is comatose, vulnerable, was raped and forced thru pregnancy with no extra care. This is horrifying. Beyond charging her rapist, workers & management at that facility must be held accountable.
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If you have been a coma for 14 years, give birth, the word "Possible" cannot be used in the same sentence.
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How was she bathed and her private areas cleaned, which is pretty up close care, and no one detected the pregnancy? Unless the father was known to staff and it was hushed up.
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I bet this was the case
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“Welcome to Hacienda Healthcare. Where you’re cared for so thoroughly, we don’t even know you’re pregnant until labor pains start”. I like it. Pithy. Will it fit on brochure?
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So demoralizing that even when in a coma, in a hospital (a space of *healing*), in 2018, a woman is still in so much danger
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if you read through the inspection reports on medicare's website they were cited for employees frequently walking in on residents bathing. the nursing director knew about it and didn't do anything. https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/InspectionReportDetail.aspx?ID=035258&SURVEYDATE=12/13/2017&INSPTYPE=STD …
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Even in a vegetative state women are not believed. Even when there is absolutely no other possibility but rape, they still use the term allegation.
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Some lawyer down the road is going to say that she didn’t resist or say say no.pic.twitter.com/KW9dKdU7jW
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I just cannot fathom how that could be seriously argued in a court setting of any kind. I don’t think there is a lawyer on this planet who could win a case with that argument.
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Agree with you of course. You just never know what ridiculous thing defense lawyers will say. And judges too, like this one who said a 19 y/o woman should have just kept her knees together to avoid rape.https://www.google.ca/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/10/canada-judge-resigns-keep-your-knees-together-comment-rape-trial …
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Oh god, I remember this and many other bullshit excuses used in defense of rapists in court. It has been a new level of startling to see headline after headline using the word allegedly to describe the rape of this woman who has been in a coma like state for 14 fucking years!
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