Miscarrying patient was passed around 'like a hot potato' due to Idaho abortion ban, doctor testifies

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A woman experiencing dangerous bleeding was not admitted by doctors at an Idaho hospital until her fourth emergency room visit in one week, due to fear and confusion over the state's abortion ban, an Idaho doctor said in testimony on Tuesday.

The "heavily bleeding" patient was told the pregnancy would not survive, but she had not been counseled on abortion, Dr. Julie Lyons, a family physician in Idaho and plaintiff in a lawsuit over the state's abortion bans, said on the stand.

"My colleagues are so scared and confused to even mention the word, it's like a hot potato -- pass the patient around and hopefully something will happen and declare itself," Lyons said.

"This patient had developed a massive subchorionic hemorrhage -- that's where the placenta rips off the side of the uterus -- and she had developed this earlier in the week, and had been into the emergency room several times," Lyons said.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/miscarrying-patient-passed-hot-potato-due-idaho-abortion/story?id=116024001

Women are still suffering and in danger.

[Irish_Dem]

1. Legal murder of women. 21st century version of the Salem witch trials.

[questionseverything]

5. It shouldn't be legal to murder women no matter how people vote

[Irish_Dem]

7. When rapist criminals who hate women run the government this is what happens.

[Solly Mack]

2. ...

[Mike 03]

3. I fear there are hundreds more like this and that

we'll never know about them or even hear their names. There could even be state laws in the future forbidding keeping accurate data or reporting about them.

[Lonestarblue]

4. I think Texas already hides data because their maternal and infant deaths are high.

Georgia is also hiding data. Most red states will as well, and any data on federal sites will be suspect after January 20.

[Mosby]

6. Not treating patients because of lawyers seems like malpractice to me.

I guess more lawyers will fix the issue.