Dozens of pregnant women, some bleeding or in labor, are turned away from ERs despite federal law
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More than 100 pregnant women in medical distress who sought help from emergency rooms have been turned away or negligently treated since 2022.

In Texas, where doctors face up to 99 years of prison if convicted of performing an illegal abortion, medical and legal experts say the law is complicating decision-making around emergency pregnancy care.

Although the state law says termination of ectopic pregnancies is not considered abortion, the draconian penalties scare Texas doctors from treating those patients,

  • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
    61·
    3 months ago

    I’m not “making execuses” for it — I’m pointing out the reality that the votes to end it haven’t been there, and how that happened.

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
      37·
      3 months ago

      We gave Democrats the means to codify Roe.

      They chose to save the filibuster instead. They always do and always will.

      • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
        8·
        3 months ago

        You’re lumping the whole group together, which isn’t a good way to describe what happened when 50 Republicans wanted to block and somewhere around 3-5 Democrats out of 50 wanted to.

          • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
            81·
            3 months ago

            So you’re mostly interested in trolling and blaming Democrats as a group rather than electing enough willing Democrats to actually change things.

            • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
              27·
              3 months ago

              I’m done being lied to. There is no amount of Democrats that will change things. There are always just enough turncoats.

              • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
                51·
                3 months ago

                People said that repeatedly about climate. Then we passed the Inflation Reduction Act.

                • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  33·
                  3 months ago

                  People said that repeatedly about climate. Then we passed the Inflation Reduction Act.

                  Well, it’s completely inadequate to the task at hand, so I fully expect centrists to coast on it forever like they did with the ACA.

                  • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
                    41·
                    3 months ago

                    We know it’s not enough; but it’s a large part of what we need. And that we got the the point of having enough votes is a big deal.

                    It didn’t happen instantly though; we got steadly increasing numbers of votes over a several decade period, including examples where votes weren’t held there wouldn’t be enough to act.