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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
(17,047 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
(8,031 posts)Maraya1969
(22,490 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
(2,813 posts)BWdem4life
(1,683 posts)oasis
(49,398 posts)he did away with Roe.
He's not so loud about it nowadays.
betsuni
(25,596 posts)DemocraticPatriot
(4,383 posts)Jilly_in_VA
(9,992 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
(5,022 posts)before drawing and quartering him!
Baltimike
(4,146 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,270 posts)Not.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,397 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,270 posts)This is how the GOP wants it.
They value pets and livestock more than human females.
betsuni
(25,596 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,270 posts)Vets too.
Elessar Zappa
(14,022 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
(47,270 posts)ShazzieB
(16,476 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
(47,270 posts)Which tells us how much these states value women.
OMGWTF
(3,972 posts)You have to give prior written consent for anyone to use your body parts after you're dead.
Irish_Dem
(47,270 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
(6,193 posts)Where the F is the mass media?
ArkansasDemocrat1
(1,222 posts)TeamProg
(6,193 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,339 posts)So at least these poor women are getting "national" exposure.
bucolic_frolic
(43,252 posts)Ping Tung
(630 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
(134 posts)It can take months for the hospitals to receive fines?
Our conservative SCOTUS is a terrible travesty.
shrike3
(3,720 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
(33,181 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,718 posts)Mad_Machine76
(24,426 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
(16,476 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
(2,474 posts)sue the hospitals the doctors and the administrators that run the hospitals for multi millions if not billions
lindysalsagal
(20,718 posts)If they're not going to provide emergency help to pregnant women, who will?
Farmer-Rick
(10,200 posts)Time for some major law suits.
Zilli
(190 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
(24,426 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
(4,947 posts)If the fetus is a person and the woman can be charged for an abortion, the hospital left a person to die.
Retrograde
(10,145 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
(81,421 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(24,556 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
(38,516 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,870 posts)They play doctor in the legislature
LeftInTX
(25,504 posts)Diamond_Dog
(32,041 posts)Pro life conservatives my ass! What say they about these incidents??
ShazzieB
(16,476 posts)Last edited Fri Apr 19, 2024, 02:59 PM - Edit history (1)
Diamond_Dog
(32,041 posts)Or, they didnt pray hard enough.
pazzyanne
(6,556 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
(47,560 posts)We're lucky they still let us vote.
calimary
(81,421 posts)Martin68
(22,845 posts)live love laugh
(13,124 posts)Traurigkeit
(230 posts)live love laugh
(13,124 posts)The POC and women should be fleeing.
vanlassie
(5,681 posts)Democrat citizens excepted.
Jilly_in_VA
(9,992 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
(9,838 posts)This is horrifying.
Evolve Dammit
(16,754 posts)DENVERPOPS
(8,844 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.......