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,

  • worldwidewave@lemmy.world
    114·
    3 months ago

    The future that conservatives have designed for us. Project 2025 would have us all live in this awful version of America

    • Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de
      28·
      3 months ago

      I think it is interesting that southern Republican states think they are “pro-life” when they have traffic fatality rates 10x higher than countries like Switzerland, Sweden, Icelans, Japan, Korea, etc and yet they get so angry whenever progressives question their pickup size or talk about saving lives through safer road design and better urbanism.

      Anyone that fights against vaccines or safer road design and smaller vehicles is NOT pro-life: they just hate women.