On top of the actual damage it will do (assuming it will alter medical practice over time) , it looks bad too. My ideal would be using medical knowledge to best balance the risks while respecting the dignity of both persons. I think there are structural issues in medical liability that drive outcomes away from that ideal.
it sure as heck makes being pregnant alone more fundamentally unsafe for the mother.
I would like the number of this guy so next time I miscarry in the shower between 12 and 4 am at 10 weeks pregnant, I can call him personally. He can come scrabble through the blood and find whatever he’s looking for.
I don’t know about West Virginia, but where I live, if I called the cops, they’d just tell me to go to the hospital and think I was crazy for wanting to call them.
Hope the WV cops enjoy the 6000 extra 911 calls they get there each year.
For those of you who don’t know how early miscarriages work, it can happen over hours and clots and blood are just coming out and I don’t know how anyone could possibly figure out if there’s a tiny form in one of the clots or not, definitely not a miscarrying woman in a lot of pain and just generally distraught.
But I certainly welcome the fine WV lawmakers to try themselves next time they get a call.
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The Louisiana Senate June 8 passed an anti-abortion bill that could create a financial incentive for reporting someone — including people or entities out of state — for allegedly “administering, prescribing, dispensing, distributing, selling, or coordinating the sale for an abortion-inducing drug to a person in this state.”
It would also potentially grant the state attorney general access to pregnant people’s medical records.
There will be some comments like, ‘Well, thank God we have abortion services,’ even though what I went through wasn’t an abortion
“Abortions for me, not for thee!”
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Sounds like she was the consequences of her own actions. I glad she was eventually able to get the care she needed but her blaming her inability to get it immediately on the liberals is truly rich.
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I’m putting this in the Roe thread because PP is viewed by many as primarily an abortion provider. But I also know a lot of lower income people who regularly go to planned parenthood for non-abortion related healthcare, and this is a real blow to that portion of the population.
Cross post to studies with obvious results.
If you miscarry and die as a result of the law, it is the lord’s will.
Mississippi officials have declared a public health emergency as the rate of infant mortality hits a decade-long high.
Nearly half of all counties in Mississippi are considered OB deserts, per the maternal health nonprofit March of Dimes, which said it can leave “families with little or no access to maternity care and putting them at greater risk for poor outcomes.”
Officials also announced plans to establish a standard of care for mothers and infants, as well as a home care system for expectant mothers at risk.
“The Mississippi Department of Health’s declaration of a public health emergency in response to infant mortality is a painful reminder of the maternal and infant health crisis facing our nation," The March of Dimes’ President and CEO, Cindy Rahman, said in its statement. “The burden falls especially hard on babies born to Black moms, who experienced an infant mortality rate of 15.2 — a nearly 24% increase from the previous year, while the rate among babies born to white moms declined.”
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Mississippi also is the state with the highest rate of unmarried mothers, which is highly correlated with the infant mortality rate.
As is the case in many areas, the solution lies with a long-term approach to improvements in education. You can force/incentivize OBs to work in selected locations, but that is not a long-term solution.
I’m sure it’s just coincidence that Mississippi usually ranks last in terms of education.
And high in poverty as well.
Missouri voters voted to enshrine abortion rights in their constitution last fall. The Republican legislature is putting a new ballot initiative up this fall to repeal those rights, and have decided to omit the fact that it bans most abortions from the language on the ballot.
I guess this is the correct thread for this bit of news…
I don’t understand how eliminating the FDA would prevent a drug prevent a drug from entering the market.
Only Dear Leader will be able to approve new drugs
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