Emergency Rooms Refuse to Treat Pregnant Women

Friday, April 19, 2024

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.

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 09:33 PM | 10 COMMENTS | permalink

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One woman miscarried in the lobby restroom 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.

Hitler Pig strikes again.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-04-19 02:20 PM

Republican laws.
Working As Intended.

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-19 02:44 PM

Thanks Republicans

#3 | Posted by hamburglar at 2024-04-19 09:40 PM

"The anti-abortion movement's end goal is to let doctors refuse treatment " including life-saving emergency care " for patients whom they deem to be sinful and morally impure." The patients, largely women, are supposed to die for their sins."

Rebecca Solnit

#4 | Posted by SomebodyElse at 2024-04-19 10:08 PM

@#4 ... The anti-abortion movement's end goal is to let doctors refuse treatment ...

That, alone, should be a red flag. And to be clear, th goal is not to "let" doctors refuse treatment, but prosecute doctors for providing treatment.

Texas AG threatens to prosecute doctors in emergency abortion (December 2023)
www.reuters.com

... Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Thursday threatened to prosecute any doctors involved in providing an emergency abortion to a woman, hours after she won a court order allowing her to obtain one for medical necessity. ...

What other treatment will doctors be told to refuse providing under penalty of prosecution?

Now that religion is deeply involved with, and dictating, how doctors are allowed to treat patients, what treatments are next to be denied?

#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-04-19 10:28 PM

In case my comment was not specific enough. ...

It now seems that Republicans are dictating what ailments and health issues doctors are allowed to treat their (the doctor's) patients for.

Legislators now dictating what medical procedures are legal.

So, if I go to my doctor with COVID symptoms, the republicans could legislate that my doctor could not treat me because COVID isn't "a thing?"

#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-04-20 12:09 AM

I would expect HHS and the Dept. of Justice to come down like a ton of bricks to enforce EMTLA.

#7 | Posted by mattm at 2024-04-21 02:25 PM

Miranda7 used to say these doctors are cowards for not treating pregnant women in distress.

I wonder if we get to hear that again or if reality has broken through her defenses.

#8 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-21 02:30 PM

The important thing is:

Now that everyone can see the consequences of Republican law,

Republicans are not going to change the law.

#9 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-21 02:31 PM

Now that everyone can see the consequences of Republican law,

Republicans are not going to change the law.

They are fleeing to South Carolina and other red states because of their anti-abortion no matter what laws.

#10 | Posted by YAV at 2024-04-21 04:25 PM

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