Another scan confirmed that the pregnancy wasn't viable. She said she'd been presented with two options, surgery or treatment. Treatment would involve methodextry, which was a drug initially used in cancer treatments but is now also used to treat ectopic pregnancies. The restrictive anti abortion law in texas classes it as an abortion inducing drug. That means many pharmacis there now won't prescribe it.
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