What: Rolling Stone reports on the mundane-yet-dystopian details of Florida’s abortion bans from health practitioners, including a woman who had to get five ultrasounds to get normal miscarriage treatment, a woman with terminal cancer who had her chemo treatments paused as the hospital gathered the documents necessary to get permission for an abortion, and an ectopic pregnancy that nurses were afraid to treat.
Why it matters: “A third doctor spoke of being hamstrung by unnecessary paperwork while trying to treat a patient experiencing a premature rupture of membrane, an emergency condition that can be fatal without intervention. ‘Let us roll in with a brochure of state paperwork. Let us start filling it all out together, because — even though you know what you want — we have to do all this paperwork,’ the doctor recalled. ‘There is still a delay that occurs with all of this that seems unnecessary in a situation where delay potentially could increase the chance of infection.’”
Source: Rolling Stone