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Pregnant women dying unnecessarily
Posted November 1, 2024 by Spinster_core in WomensLiberation

We've all heard about women dying or nearly dying over the past couple years in states with strict anti-abortion laws.

Obviously the Supreme Court overturning Roe is like "the most" to blame. And individual states' lawmakers who want to restrict women's and girls' medical care.

But in most of these cases, I really think these doctors (who refuse to treat women whose LIVES are in danger because they could supposedly face prosecution for terminating a pregnancy UNLESS a woman's life is in danger) are just like... getting back at the government? As in "I went to medical school. I'm a fucking doctor. And the government wants to tell me how to practice? Fine." Almost like "malicious compliance" if that makes sense?

Like the teenager who died in Texas from sepsis last year- a lot of you have probably read about her in the last couple days? If these doctors were genuinely concerned about losing their right to practice or even facing prosecution, why wouldn't they say to her mother or boyfriend "This is serious. You need to get her to (state) immediately. Drive like hell because you've got _ hours and I can't do shit." Instead, she was sent home from the ER twice. She died during her third visit after multiple ultrasounds had shown there was no fetal heartbeat.

Maybe some of these doctors are just anti-abortion rights themselves, but I really think a lot of them are just... pissy. And they're willing to let women die if the government wants to threaten them with charges (in situations where it's not clearly evident that a woman's life is in immediate danger, unlike all these women whose lives were clearly in immediate danger).

I don't know if this is even the right circle for this but I just feel like these doctors need to lose their fucking licenses. And maybe these hospitals need to face some real penalties. Like emergency rooms are federally required to provide life saving care. And again and again they're not. And women are dying.

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