What: The AP has the dystopian details on what pregnant women face in America after Roe: “One woman miscarried in the lobby restroom of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to check her in. 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.”
Why? Because pregnant patients have “become radioactive to emergency departments’ in states with extreme abortion restrictions, said Sara Rosenbaum, a George Washington University health law and policy professor. ‘They are so scared of a pregnant patient, that the emergency medicine staff won’t even look. They just want these people gone,’ Rosenbaum said.”
Why it matters: Women and babies will continue suffering and dying in America as they are denied care. And the Supreme Court on Wednesday hears arguments that could weaken a federal law requiring emergency rooms at least stabilize and transfer any pregnant patient that comes in.
Source: AP