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
    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.

                • 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.