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applegrove

(118,767 posts) Fri Apr 19, 2024, 02:49 PM Apr 19

Emergency Rooms Refuse to Treat Pregnant Women

Emergency Rooms Refuse to Treat Pregnant Women

April 19, 2024 at 8:45 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 224 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2024/04/19/emergency-rooms-refuse-to-treat-pregnant-women/

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Associated Press: “One woman miscarried in the restroom lobby of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to admit her. Another woman learned that her fetus had no heartbeat at a Florida hospital, the day after a security guard turned her away from the facility. And in North Carolina, a woman gave birth in a car after an emergency room couldn’t offer an ultrasound. The baby later died.”

“Complaints that pregnant women were turned away from U.S. emergency rooms spiked in 2022 after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, federal documents obtained by The Associated Press reveal.”

“The cases raise alarms about the state of emergency pregnancy care in the U.S., especially in states that enacted strict abortion laws and sparked confusion around the treatment doctors can provide.”

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Emergency Rooms Refuse to Treat Pregnant Women (Original Post) applegrove Apr 19 OP

And conservatives wonder why fewer women are having babies! Diamond_Dog Apr 19 #1

This makes me SO ANGRY!!! AmBlue Apr 19 #2

So much for "First do no harm" but that's what the Talibubbas want. catbyte Apr 19 #3

Red states are bleeding OB/GYNs pfitz59 Apr 19 #4

The sad outcomes wouldn't have been any different in the first 2 cases Warpy Apr 19 #5

The women all deserved treatment. And then there was applegrove Apr 19 #6

That's only because she lost it in the toilet Warpy Apr 19 #7

Diamond_Dog

(32,047 posts)

1. And conservatives wonder why fewer women are having babies!

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Apr 19, 2024, 03:00 PM

Apr 19

They’re terrified they will be denied life-saving care if something goes wrong. This so so infuriating and shameful!

AmBlue

(3,115 posts)

2. This makes me SO ANGRY!!!

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Apr 19, 2024, 04:45 PM

Apr 19

Sorry to yell, but this makes me want to scream!! This is just MADNESS!!

catbyte

(34,437 posts)

3. So much for "First do no harm" but that's what the Talibubbas want.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Apr 19, 2024, 05:23 PM

Apr 19

pfitz59

(10,388 posts)

4. Red states are bleeding OB/GYNs

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Apr 19, 2024, 05:37 PM

Apr 19

No one wants to risk their licenses. This includes ER staff. Maybe the women should show up at the statehouse, governor's mansion or courthouse..... since all those Pols are playing doctor.

Warpy

(111,332 posts)

5. The sad outcomes wouldn't have been any different in the first 2 cases

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Fri Apr 19, 2024, 05:47 PM

Apr 19

although the women deserved better treatment. In the third case, the hospital failed to transfer her to a facility that could provide the care she needed, so she's got grounds to sue, preterm labor is often treatable if women are sent to places that can treat it.

This shit has got to stop.

applegrove

(118,767 posts)

6. The women all deserved treatment. And then there was

Reply to Warpy (Reply #5)

Fri Apr 19, 2024, 06:04 PM

Apr 19

the case where the woman went home, lost the baby and was charged.

Warpy

(111,332 posts)

7. That's only because she lost it in the toilet

Reply to applegrove (Reply #6)

Fri Apr 19, 2024, 06:09 PM

Apr 19

and tried to flush it instead of fishing it out (and doing exactly WHAT with it?).

A bunch of MEN found that icky doodle so she got charged with whatever they could come up with.

Slave states are insane and no place for girls or women under 50 to live.

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