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Emergency rooms refused to treat pregnant women, leaving one to miscarry in a lobby restroomComplaints 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.
It is shocking, its absolutely shocking, said Amelia Huntsberger, an OB/GYN in Oregon. It is appalling that someone would show up to an emergency room and not receive care -- this is inconceivable.
It's happened despite federal mandates that the women be treated.
Federal law requires emergency rooms to treat or stabilize patients who are in active labor and provide a medical transfer to another hospital if they dont have the staff or resources to treat them. Medical facilities must comply with the law if they accept Medicare funding.
Texasgal
(17,059 posts)I am so annoyed and hurt by this action!
We MUST get this turned around.. women and children are suffering!
I could just SPIT!!!!
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(8,404 posts)Maraya1969
(22,605 posts)comfortable, (much more so than in a damn toilet!). Anyway, allow the poor woman to lay there until the emergency room doctors make them give her a room.
We have become one of those "Shithole" countries. I am not kidding about that.
cate94
(2,826 posts)BWdem4life
(1,781 posts)oasis
(49,777 posts)he did away with Roe.
He's not so loud about it nowadays.
betsuni
(26,100 posts)DemocraticPatriot
(4,624 posts)Jilly_in_VA
(10,118 posts)draw and quarter him, for this and his other sins. He is the least Christian of all our so-called "Christian" governors. Or maybe just stake him to an anthill.
drmeow
(5,074 posts)before drawing and quartering him!
Baltimike
(4,153 posts)Irish_Dem
(49,982 posts)Not.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,935 posts)Irish_Dem
(49,982 posts)This is how the GOP wants it.
They value pets and livestock more than human females.
betsuni
(26,100 posts)Irish_Dem
(49,982 posts)Vets too.
Elessar Zappa
(14,249 posts)And I believe theyll come out in droves this November, up and down the ballot. I truly believe it. Women will NOT go back.
Irish_Dem
(49,982 posts)ShazzieB
(16,862 posts)Last edited Fri Apr 19, 2024, 03:00 PM - Edit history (2)
FTFY, because I think this is an important distinction.
America now has a two-tier health care system for women, determined by which political party is in power in each state. All because the corrupt conservative majority that controls our broken SCOTUS decided to allow individual states to take away a constitutional right that all women in this country had for almost 50 years.
I live in a blue state where doctors are still allowed to provide health care services for people of all genders without a bunch of ignorant politicians telling them what services they can provide to which patients, and the contrast between here and places like Texas is stark.
Irish_Dem
(49,982 posts)Which tells us how much these states value women.
OMGWTF
(4,046 posts)You have to give prior written consent for anyone to use your body parts after you're dead.
Irish_Dem
(49,982 posts)Like they do with pregnant women.
A security guard doesn't send an ambulance away with a dead body like they do a pregnant woman.
TeamProg
(6,575 posts)Where the F is the mass media?
ArkansasDemocrat1
(1,439 posts)TeamProg
(6,575 posts)BumRushDaShow
(131,263 posts)So at least these poor women are getting "national" exposure.
bucolic_frolic
(43,887 posts)Ping Tung
(900 posts)Or, it proves that the "Benevolent and loving" part is false advertising.
There is no medical reason to force birth on women. None at all.
It's all due to this magical imaginary idea that a human embryo or fetus is a special god creation. Somehow animal embryos and fetuses aren't god's creations and therefore they can be aborted. It's done all the time when people wait too long to get their pets fixed or neutered.
But human females, they have to be controlled and forced to birth that magical fetus because of the imaginary super daddy in the sky.
Passages
(320 posts)It can take months for the hospitals to receive fines?
Our conservative SCOTUS is a terrible travesty.
shrike3
(4,056 posts)Woman was told to "go home and miscarry." She started bleeding so heavily her husband rushed her to the hospital. She passed out in front of the hospital as they were trying to get her into a wheelchair. She was very lucky she survived. This was a wanted child, btw. Tragic for the family. I talked to her mother last night. Physically, she feels much better. But she's considering quitting her job (they can afford it) and stay home with her other children. Really changed her view of things.
Hugin
(33,357 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,950 posts)Mad_Machine76
(24,501 posts)I mean, we haven't been bombed back to the stone age or anything. There's no excuse for stuff like this to be happening in the year of our lord 2024
ShazzieB
(16,862 posts)Not to minimize what's going on now, but a lot of things have changed in just the past 150 years or so. We're so used to thinking of childbirth as relatively safe that it's easy to forget how recently it was anything but.
For example, we now take it for granted that doctors are going to wash their hands before performing surgery or delivering a baby, but this was not the norm everywhere throughout most of the 19th century. It was common for women to have a healthy delivery and then die from a completely preventable infection.
We also have imaging technologies now that allow doctors to see exactly what's going on inside someone's body and surgical techniques (i.e., c-section) for intervention when vaginal delivery is not feasible due to the size and/or position of the fetus.
Al, these things and more have greatly increased the chances of a sare and healthy delivery for mother and baby. Except in red states, where doctors are being forced to practice medicine according to the whims of ignorant politicians rather than 21st century standards of care.
It's an outrage and a travesty, and it makes me mad enough to chew nails.
moonshinegnomie
(2,556 posts)sue the hospitals the doctors and the administrators that run the hospitals for multi millions if not billions
lindysalsagal
(20,950 posts)If they're not going to provide emergency help to pregnant women, who will?
Farmer-Rick
(10,330 posts)Time for some major law suits.
Zilli
(199 posts)proud of this outcome and will continue to do all it can to destroy we the people with an emphasis on women. This is the party of "life" .......
Mad_Machine76
(24,501 posts)What year is it even?! How did Republicans/SCOTUS think this was going to work in this day and age? Or ever?!
Cuthbert Allgood
(5,032 posts)If the fetus is a person and the woman can be charged for an abortion, the hospital left a person to die.
Retrograde
(10,216 posts)Or is she just a fetus-host?
I get confused easily- if an ovum becomes a person at the moment of fertilization, when does a female human go from being a person to being a (disposable) incubator?
calimary
(81,857 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(25,119 posts)Republican state laws. Given enough lawsuits, there may be a large exodus of hospitals operating in Red States. Laws have consequences - not just on individuals, but on society as a whole.
dchill
(38,704 posts)keithbvadu2
(37,395 posts)They play doctor in the legislature
LeftInTX
(26,148 posts)Diamond_Dog
(32,423 posts)Pro life conservatives my ass! What say they about these incidents??
ShazzieB
(16,862 posts)Last edited Fri Apr 19, 2024, 02:59 PM - Edit history (1)
Diamond_Dog
(32,423 posts)Or, they didnt pray hard enough.
pazzyanne
(6,560 posts)"This does't happen every day."
Seriously I had this discussion with my Maga sister last week. The discussion ended when I asked her what she would do if this happened to "your" daughter. She didn't answer, but I know she would be heading for the nearest blue state border with her daughter in the car. She didn't actually say it's okay for me to save mine, but not for you.
PatSeg
(48,192 posts)We're lucky they still let us vote.
calimary
(81,857 posts)Martin68
(23,244 posts)live love laugh
(13,348 posts)Traurigkeit
(860 posts)live love laugh
(13,348 posts)The POC and women should be fleeing.
vanlassie
(5,721 posts)Democrat citizens excepted.
Jilly_in_VA
(10,118 posts)the government starts suing the hospitals and breaks their backs financially that way, or it stops their federal aid. IT'S THE LAW that they have to treat or transport pregnant women. Either they do it or they lose. No ifs, ands, or buts.
japple
(9,914 posts)This is horrifying.
Evolve Dammit
(16,992 posts)DENVERPOPS
(9,059 posts)Federal law requires emergency rooms to treat or stabilize patients who are in active labor and provide a medical transfer to another hospital if they dont have the staff or resources to treat them. Medical facilities must comply with the law if they accept Medicare funding.
So stop paying their medicare and/or medicaid payments.......and let the patient start a lawsuit.......