Jessica Valenti: Florida Agency Releases Dangerous Abortion 'Rules'

[Nevilledog]

https://jessica.substack.com/p/florida-agency-releases-dangerous

With Florida’s 6-week abortion ban now in effect, a state agency has issued guidelines for doctors that they say will ensure women get the care they need. In truth, the rules are a political move that will further endanger women’s health and lives.

Guidelines from Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) not only require doctors to send the state detailed abortion reports, a tactic Abortion, Every Day has been raising the alarm about, but also dictate how doctors should end pregnancies. The guideline’s language could even force physicians to give women c-sections rather than abortions—another nightmare tactic that AED has been tracking.

Consider one of the most common post-Roe horror stories we’ve seen: women who were denied treatment after their water broke too early for the fetus to survive. (Also called preterm premature rupture of membranes, or PPROM.) In a section about how doctors should treat patients with PPROM, the agency does not tell doctors that they can give women abortions. Instead, they say the patient should “be admitted for observation.”

If a physician determines that the woman’s life is imminently at risk from the pregnancy, the guidelines still don’t tell doctors to provide her an abortion. Instead, here’s the language they use:

“When a physician attempts to induce the live birth of an unborn baby, regardless of gestational age, to treat the premature rupture of membranes, and the unborn baby does not survive, the incident does not constitute an abortion…”

What do you think they mean by “attempts to induce the live birth of an unborn baby?” They’re talking about vaginal inductions and c-sections. They want doctors to torture women with major abdominal surgery or traumatic vaginal birth rather than a safer, minutes-long, abortion procedure.

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[Chainfire]

1. I guess that the they want to "observe" the woman dying.

Like watching the sun set in Key West... Its a Florida thing.

[Lovie777]

2. Florida use to be a place of fun.....................

it's slowly dying.

[Bundbuster]

3. The state's going to be underwater from climate change

and these pinhead republican climate denying hatemongers prioritize misogynistic shit like this. When they're trying to find snorkels I will have less than no pity for their useless asses.