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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Jun 4, 2025, 12:54 PM Jun 2025

Texas hospital that discharged woman with doomed pregnancy violated the law, a federal inquiry finds [View all]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Texas hospital that repeatedly sent a woman who was bleeding and in pain home without ending her nonviable, life-threatening pregnancy violated the law, according to a newly released federal investigation.

The government's findings, which have not been previously reported, were a small victory for 36-year-old Kyleigh Thurman, who ultimately lost part of her reproductive system after being discharged without any help from her hometown emergency room for her dangerous ectopic pregnancy.

But a new policy the Trump administration announced on Tuesday has thrown into doubt the federal government's oversight of hospitals that deny women emergency abortions, even when they are at risk for serious infection, organ loss or severe hemorrhaging.

Thurman had hoped the federal government's investigation, which issued a report in April after concluding its inquiry last year, would send a clear message to hospitals in Texas, which has one of the nation's strictest abortion bans.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-hospital-discharged-woman-doomed-152837584.html

Trump wants to kill women.

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