The two Houston doctors signed onto a lawsuit brought by five women who say they were...
OBGYNs Judy Levison and Damla Karsan and in Karsan’s office on Fannin on Thursday, March 9, 2023. The doctors have joined a lawsuit brought by five women against the state of Texas as plaintiffs in hopes of clarifying when a physicians can end a pregnancy in emergency situations or if the fetus is not viable.Last spring, Dr. Judy Levison started to give her routine answer when a patient, who was 15 weeks pregnant, asked why she should receive a blood test that picks up certain fetal defects.
After working in Houston for more than two decades, Levison and Karsan see the case as a chance to fight for colleagues and patients caught between legal penalties and ethical treatment.A New Jersey native, Levison, 73, said the intense debate over women’s rights in the 1970s helped spark her interest in women’s health care.
As an educator, Levison gained the trust of her students, including Dr. Elizabeth Kravitz, a former Baylor College of Medicine student and resident at the University of Pennsylvania Health System. After Texas in September 2021 banned abortions after the presence of a fetal heartbeat, which usually starts around six weeks of pregnancy, Levison started hearing stories from colleagues at Texas Medical Center hospitals about how the laws were affecting treatment. In some cases, patients whose fetuses were not likely to survive had been forced to wait until the pregnancy ended on its own, rather than receive immediate care, she said.
She had known she wanted to be a doctor since she was 4 years old, inquiring as a kindergartner about their instruments and how they work. It was not until middle school when she hit puberty that she discovered an interest in women’s health. In medical school, she started a program for reproductive health education“From the very beginning, women’s health and reproductive health has been a very central focus for me,” Karsan said.Pregnant with cancer in a post-Roe world: ‘This is a baby we want.
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