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
    191·
    3 months ago

    Given that every Republican was against codification, it only takes having a few Democrats against it to block such a move. Even as a majority of Democrats were in favor, at no time was a majority of the Senate

    • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      32·
      3 months ago

      Then you make them vote and you primary the fuck out of them.

      Funny how everyone in the senate seems to forget how to politic when it suits them.

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
      38·
      3 months ago

      Oh stop making excuses for the Jim Crow Filibuster.

      Democrats had the seats and just enough no votes. Because they ALWAYS find the no votes.

      Children being forced to carry rapists’ offspring to term was the price that they were delighted to pay to keep their procedural excuse for inaction.

      • 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.