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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
(17,048 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
(8,101 posts)Maraya1969
(22,506 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
(2,814 posts)BWdem4life
(1,701 posts)oasis
(49,426 posts)he did away with Roe.
He's not so loud about it nowadays.
betsuni
(25,668 posts)DemocraticPatriot
(4,429 posts)Jilly_in_VA
(10,008 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
(5,027 posts)before drawing and quartering him!
Baltimike
(4,148 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,482 posts)Not.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,467 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,482 posts)This is how the GOP wants it.
They value pets and livestock more than human females.
betsuni
(25,668 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,482 posts)Vets too.
Elessar Zappa
(14,083 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
(47,482 posts)ShazzieB
(16,542 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
(47,482 posts)Which tells us how much these states value women.
OMGWTF
(3,978 posts)You have to give prior written consent for anyone to use your body parts after you're dead.
Irish_Dem
(47,482 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
(6,285 posts)Where the F is the mass media?
ArkansasDemocrat1
(1,259 posts)TeamProg
(6,285 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,608 posts)So at least these poor women are getting "national" exposure.
bucolic_frolic
(43,342 posts)Ping Tung
(723 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
(172 posts)It can take months for the hospitals to receive fines?
Our conservative SCOTUS is a terrible travesty.
shrike3
(3,811 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
(33,222 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,741 posts)Mad_Machine76
(24,445 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
(16,542 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
(2,494 posts)sue the hospitals the doctors and the administrators that run the hospitals for multi millions if not billions
lindysalsagal
(20,741 posts)If they're not going to provide emergency help to pregnant women, who will?
Farmer-Rick
(10,216 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
(24,445 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
(4,972 posts)If the fetus is a person and the woman can be charged for an abortion, the hospital left a person to die.
Retrograde
(10,163 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
(81,523 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(24,656 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
(38,556 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,949 posts)They play doctor in the legislature
LeftInTX
(25,595 posts)Diamond_Dog
(32,104 posts)Pro life conservatives my ass! What say they about these incidents??
ShazzieB
(16,542 posts)Last edited Fri Apr 19, 2024, 02:59 PM - Edit history (1)
Diamond_Dog
(32,104 posts)Or, they didnt pray hard enough.
pazzyanne
(6,558 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
(47,625 posts)We're lucky they still let us vote.
calimary
(81,523 posts)Martin68
(22,900 posts)live love laugh
(13,144 posts)Traurigkeit
(272 posts)live love laugh
(13,144 posts)The POC and women should be fleeing.
vanlassie
(5,692 posts)Democrat citizens excepted.
Jilly_in_VA
(10,008 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
(9,844 posts)This is horrifying.
Evolve Dammit
(16,781 posts)DENVERPOPS
(8,847 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.......