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Fri Apr 19, 2024, 02:49 PM Apr 19

Emergency Rooms Refuse to Treat Pregnant Women [View all]

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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