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
    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.