One woman miscarried in the restroom lobby of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to admit her. Another woman learned that her fetus had no heartbeat at a Florida hospital, the day after a security guard turned her away from the facility. And in North Carolina, a woman gave birth in a car after an emergency room couldn’t offer an ultrasound. The baby later died.
The cases raise alarms about the state of emergency pregnancy care in the U.S., especially in states that enacted strict abortion laws and sparked confusion around the treatment doctors can provide.
“It is shocking, it’s absolutely shocking,” said Amelia Huntsberger, an OB/GYN in Oregon. “It is appalling that someone would show up to an emergency room and not receive care – this is inconceivable.”
It’s happened despite federal mandates that the women be treated.
They should charge the doctor on duty and admins with a crime for that one in Houston – That is massively fucked up. They should have their licenses removed too absolutely unbelievable
Republican politicians are responsible for this, nobody else.
Yeah I don’t care about the law if I was in charge of a hospital a woman isn’t giving birth in the lobby bathroom after being turned away. Fuck the politicians too though
The people voting for those politicians also bear the responsibility.
So fuck the doctors, because they’re damned if they do, damned if they don’t?
Go ahead and do that then you don’t have any doctors. Just shut down all the hospitals in Texas you don’t need them. Thoughts and prayers.