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
    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.

        • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
          25·
          3 months ago

          We know it’s not enough; but it’s a large part of what we need.

          It’s not even a small part, and it’s the only part we’re gonna get for decades, because Democrats love to coast on half-measures.

          • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
            3·
            3 months ago

            What we get is going to depend on who we elect. We can vote for more and better Democrats…or choose to elect people who want to maximize environmental damage.

            • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
              23·
              3 months ago

              We can vote for more and better Democrats…

              We can vote for more. The party opposes better more stridently than it opposes Republicans.

              • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
                21·
                3 months ago

                “the party” is elected too. You can change it much as a bunch of Sanders supporters went and got rules changed to make it easier to launch primary challenges.