The medication allows the 14-year-old to live the life of a normal teen, without a wheelchair or debilitating pain, her mother said. But the pharmacist refused to refill the prescription.
But methotrexate can also be used to end ectopic pregnancies, to induce an abortion, and that’s where the problem arises.
The young girl’s physician, Dr. Deborah Jane Power, said it was the first pediatric patient of hers that had been denied her medication. This is why there was so much anxiety for the 24 hours between being denied until finally getting the prescription approved. Power said a refusal has happened to some older patients but never someone so young and so quickly after the territorial abortion law written in 1864 had taken effect.
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