Dobbs Has Created a Health Care Apocalypse

[marmar]

(Mother Jones) Dr. Leilah Zahedi-Spung spent four years in medical school, four years in an OB-GYN residency, and three years in a maternal-fetal medicine fellowship learning how to care for high-risk pregnant patients. In her decade-plus of medical training, she learned that in some cases, the only rational and responsible option for medical intervention is an emergency abortion. In July 2021 she moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee, and discovered she was the sole provider in her area trained to perform second-trimester dilatation and evacuation abortions for patients who needed them to survive.

But in 2022, the Supreme Court delivered its Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, and Tennessee’s trigger ban—written in preparation for the possibility that the Supreme Court would overturn Roe—went into effect a month later. Suddenly, providing an abortion in Tennessee became an immediate Class C felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison. There were no exceptions, even when an abortion was necessary to save a life or prevent serious bodily harm. Only after being arrested could a physician provide something called an “affirmative defense” to fight the charges. (Eight months after the trigger law took effect, the GOP governor signed a bill allowing abortions in limited medical emergencies.)

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“As more clinicians leave those states, as more maternity care deserts happen, we will see poorer outcomes,” says Dr. Stella Dantas, an OB-GYN in Oregon and the president-elect of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. “And I do think we will see more maternal mortality just by the sheer fact that we won’t have providers even trained to take care of some of these obstetric emergencies.” Indeed, 64 percent of practicing OB-GYNs who responded to a KFF (formerly the Kaiser Family Foundation) survey said the Dobbs ruling has worsened maternal mortality.

In the before times, a high-risk obstetrics patient might consider having an abortion to nearly eliminate their potential maternal health risks, or even just seek more frequent monitoring to decrease them. But what happens when there are fewer clinicians left to treat sicker pregnant patients—and higher numbers of them—as birth rates rise in abortion-banned states? Data from states tell the story. ..............(more)

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/05/dobbs-worsened-maternal-mortality-abortion/

[Diamond_Dog]

1. Right wing extremists in the GOP must be voted out.

Women are NOT disposable breeders!

[Sky Jewels]

5. And women who vote for the Christofascist GQP

had better wake the fuck up before they or their loved ones become more Dobbs statistics.

[edisdead]

12. I am so Incredibly tired of being ruled by

I am so Incredibly tired of being ruled by (yes ruled) by people who believe in a make believe sky daddy. It is fucking insane.

[Sky Jewels]

13. Same. I'm just dumbfounded that so many modern people

still believe in magic, make believe and mythologies. I hate most religions. They’re patriarchal bullshit. And God is a psychopathic monster. I’m glad “He” (hah — what crock!) doesn’t actually exist.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. I have been sharing on Social Media in the most respective way I can...

"With your vote Ladies, are you giving permission to Lawmakers and Judges the RIGHT to decide your health care if pregnancies go wrong and your health is in danger? "

I believe more women have to be asked the hard questions before they vote. For pregnancies can and do go wrong! That in order to save their lives, Doctors much be the ones to be there when they do. Women are and have come damn close to dying since the Dobbs decision went down.

[Farmer-Rick]

3. Pressumed guilty until proven innocent

Way to destroy justice in America.

"Only after being arrested could a physician provide something called an “affirmative defense” to fight the charges."

[intheflow]

4. Only " 64 percent of practicing OB-GYNs" think Dobbs

worsened maternal health outcomes?! What is wrong with the other 36%?? Did they get their degrees from Prager and Trump Universities? That factoid could be its own fucking exposé.

[cab67]

8. Maybe they live in states where bans haven't been enacted?

Perhaps they haven't actually seen the negative outcomes for themselves?

Don't know.

[Traurigkeit]

9. 36% fear Texas, where there is a certification that is done for the US. Don't know why it is based there.

The American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology
2727 Laclede St., Dallas, TX 75204
[phone] | Contact Us

https://www.abog.org/about-abog/about-abog

[spanone]

6. K&R

[BradBo]

7. Tennessee is going to be a shithole soon. Even worse than it is right now.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

10. Vice President Harris responds to Trump saying he wants to allow laws "monitoring" women's pregnancies

Link to tweet

[AllyCat]

11. RW extremists are anti-life and pro-harm

All in the name of their invisible sky monster they made up.