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Abortion options are still available in Florida – Put your mind at ease. Immediate care is available
Florida has passed a new law which was signed by Governor DeSantis that governs and further restrict the abortion options for women. This new law went into effect on July 1, 2022 As a licensed medical office, we always comply with all Florida laws and regulations. This law also affected the way doctors are required to calculate the gestational age of pregnancies when determining if a pregnancy is either 1st or 2nd trimester, causing additional barriers to women seeking early abortions. Due to this new law imposed by Florida, a 1st trimester is now calculated from the estimated LMP instead of the actual time of fertilization, meaning the time of conception. What this means is that now the 1st trimester is deemed by the State of Florida legislature to end after 11.6 weeks from an estimated time of a woman’s last menstrual cycle, instead the previous 11.6 weeks after actual fertilization and the true beginning of a pregnancy, which is usually about 2 weeks after the LMP when a woman ovulates. A 24 hour mandatory waiting period is also required in Florida now as well. This means patients must present for an initial evaluation and then wait 24 hours before being able to proceed with an abortion. This means it now takes two visits in Florida to get an abortion, but we are able to get patients back in for the 2nd visit in a reliable and continual care environment.
This means being seen as soon as possible to make sure you can still qualify for an abortion procedure is more important than ever. Our office, as Jacksonville’s physician operated medical facility, open every day of the week with both morning and afternoon appointments available to allow us to provide continual and immediate care. No excuses, we work every day and we are here for you. You will never be told you must wait for weeks for an appointment which is common with clinics that may not have a doctor available every day. We are here to help women and give peace of mind to those seeking our immediate care. We are a fully dedicated abortion provider and we will get you in to be seen. Call us to talk to our friendly staff and we will help you as much as we can.
Study shows the risk of miscarriage is not increased in patients with a subchorionic bleed
Patients who are pregnant and informed that they have a subchorionic bleed in their uterus often experience significant emotion and physical concerns. Often they are concerned that this event will lead to, or can be told that this will lead to a higher risk of having a miscarriage. Recently this was studied and the results showed that a subchorionic hemorrhage in patients with a viable pregnancy are not at increased risk of the pregnancy leading to a spontaneous miscarriage. This should give peace of mind to patients who are experiencing this event. For more information, please visit this link.
Safe abortions are performed by qualified doctors in dedicated medical practices
When seeking abortion care, women should always ask the facility directly when making an appointment if they provide abortion services every day and if the doctor is available to work in the medical practice every day. Women have a right to know that abortion providers are not all the same. There are part time abortion providers who provide limited access for abortion services and continual care abortion practices who have doctors available every day to allow immediate and timely access for women seeking care. The practices that have a regular doctor working every day providing medical procedures and abortion options every day. This provides women with a reliable, safe and immediate care facility for women’s reproductive services. This is modern, safe women’s care and modern medicine. This is what every patient should expect and what every women deserves. Medical care should be available every day and a doctor, not just a nurse who is not qualified or licensed in Florida to provide unsupervised surgical services, must be available in abortion practices as women may have additional needs and patients need to know that they have a safe place to immediately seek this care if needed.
Women also have the absolute right to know who the doctor is providing surgical care and what their training and experience level is. As the surgical abortion is a gynecologic procedure, it is important that doctor is trained in gynecology and highly experienced. Patients should never be told by true continual care abortion providers that there is a long delay in the ability to make an appointment for an abortion procedure, as it is well known that care for abortion procedures dedicated continual care facilities will always be immediately available to provide care and the regular doctors will always get patients in immediately, often even the same day. If a facility only has a limited doctor availability or schedules of work days, and states they are “booked up” for days or even sometimes weeks, this is likely simply an unfortunate indication that a facility may not actually have a required doctor available, and this also may indicate a facility does not have an on-site physician on staff or available. If a facility tells you they don’t have immediate availability for a pregnancy termination, which is well recognized these days as highly time sensitive and considered an urgent medical care need, realize that it is essential to be seen to confirm the gestational date of the pregnancy immediately, to avoid losing to option of obtaining care due to any unnecessary delay. For safety, there should never be more than a one day wait to get a time sensitive pregnancy termination without confirming the gestational date of the pregnancy. Doctors are the only ones who can perform abortions and surgery in Florida. Be safe, always ask the right questions, and always seek qualified, experienced care.