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Emergency rooms refused to treat pregnant women, leaving one to miscarry in a lobby restroom (apnews.com)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Rapidcreek@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

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“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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[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 102 points 7 months ago

A lot of older American women, have these stories, this is why Roe vs Wade was so important and should have become part of the constitution. These stories will keep happening as long as Republicans are allowed to keep mixing church and state.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 41 points 7 months ago

These stories will keep happening as long as Republicans are allowed to keep mixing church and state.

These will continue happening so long as Republicans are allowed to be in government. Church is an excuse, not the cause. They're bad people who should not be allowed to govern.

[-] InternetPerson@lemmings.world 8 points 7 months ago

Although you can't deny that there is a systemic connection between religions and topics like these.

[-] TeoTwawki@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Church and state was where we really needed a wall, not Mexico

[-] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 73 points 7 months ago

This level of dysfunction surprises me, and I expected a high level of dysfunction.

Donald Trump did this.

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 40 points 7 months ago

Republicans, including Trump, did this.

[-] Kandorr@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago

Yeah, you have to include Mitchcarry O'Connel on this

[-] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 7 months ago

And the massive asshole gingrich

[-] rasakaf679@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Biden could have changed them back. But didn't and let it happen. So who to blame?

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 10 points 7 months ago

Biden does not have the magical power to undo SCOTUS decisions or state legislature shennaigans. Reublican obstructionists in the legislature will keep anything from being fixed through federal laws.

Only a moron would blame Biden. Republicans are to blame.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 5 points 7 months ago

I need to find a way to blame both sides instead of the one clearly doing most of the damage. Can't you work with me, here?

[-] rasakaf679@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Tell me how long has he been in his office?? He could have made his stance clear. Is he willing to say that out loud now?

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

He responded pretty quickly with the amount of power he has as president.

[-] youngGoku@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Biden could have changed them back

How would he do that?

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 35 points 7 months ago

It shouldn't surprise you. It's entirely intentional. The cruelty is the point.

[-] cmoney@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

Also it's about racism. black and brown people are more likely to die from child birth.

[-] Wojwo@lemmy.ml 10 points 7 months ago

Eh, it's the culmination of decades of planning and scheming by the Heritage Foundation and others. Donald Trump is just a symptom. Sometimes a single symptom overshadows the whole disease.

[-] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 9 points 7 months ago

Yeah, we've been heading down this path since Reagan.

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 2 points 7 months ago

The path has been clear since Regean, but even that wasn't the beginning.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 2 points 7 months ago

How far back do you want to go? Agriculture might have been a bad move.

[-] Wojwo@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

Something definitely happened in the 70s. The civil rights movement of the 60s, seemed to spark a principal skinner moment. Plus Watergate and push back against Vietnam. "Could we be out of touch? No it's the children"

Communism's boogeyman effect was wearing off, and the conservatives needed some new material. Racism is always a good lever. So you get the southern strategy, Powell memorandum, Heritage Foundation, and the seeds for what will become Fox News.

I think there's a good argument for the early 70s as a starting point.

[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 44 points 7 months ago

Conservatives are attacking women and LGBTQ people and it's not just happening in America. What the Republicans are doing sent a wave across the globe and other conservative groups are reproducing this in their own country.

It's an attack on basic rights and liberties.

[-] kamenlady@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Yeah, I've been observing this also in Germany and Brazil.

[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 months ago

And Italy. And Argentina.

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 27 points 7 months ago

Maternal care was already the most feeble of all the developed countries, and even what we had is being taken away.

[-] Raxiel@lemmy.world 23 points 7 months ago

So does that mean a lawsuit now? Or jail?

Not anyone at the hospitals of course, I mean those "wicked" women.

[-] frunch@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That's what i was thinking--this is only the beginning of their woes. They committed a crime by having a miscarriage, i imagine this isn't the last we've heard of these stories

[-] joyjoy@lemm.ee 8 points 7 months ago

Let's sue God for aborting that baby.

[-] Bobmighty@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago

This is the value of Republican lawmaking right here folks. Human suffering is all they have to offer anyone.

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