Emergency rooms refused to treat pregnant women, leaving one to miscarry in a lobby restroom
Emergency rooms refused to treat pregnant women, leaving one to miscarry in a lobby restroomComplaints that pregnant women were turned away from U.S. emergency rooms spiked in 2022 after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, federal documents obtained by The Associated Press reveal.
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.
Federal law requires emergency rooms to treat or stabilize patients who are in active labor and provide a medical transfer to another hospital if they don’t have the staff or resources to treat them. Medical facilities must comply with the law if they accept Medicare funding.
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Where the F is the mass media?
I mean, we haven't been bombed back to the stone age or anything. There's no excuse for stuff like this to be happening in the year of our lord 2024
Not to minimize what's going on now, but a lot of things have changed in just the past 150 years or so. We're so used to thinking of childbirth as relatively safe that it's easy to forget how recently it was anything but.
For example, we now take it for granted that doctors are going to wash their hands before performing surgery or delivering a baby, but this was not the norm everywhere throughout most of the 19th century. It was common for women to have a healthy delivery and then die from a completely preventable infection.
We also have imaging technologies now that allow doctors to see exactly what's going on inside someone's body and surgical techniques (i.e., c-section) for intervention when vaginal delivery is not feasible due to the size and/or position of the fetus.
Al, these things and more have greatly increased the chances of a sare and healthy delivery for mother and baby. Except in red states, where doctors are being forced to practice medicine according to the whims of ignorant politicians rather than 21st century standards of care.
It's an outrage and a travesty, and it makes me mad enough to chew nails.
They play doctor in the legislature
