Emergency rooms refused to treat pregnant women, leaving one to miscarry in a lobby restroom
“One woman miscarried in the restroom lobby of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to admit her. 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.”
“Complaints 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.”
This level of dysfunction surprises me, and I expected a high level of dysfunction.
Donald Trump did this.
Republicans, including Trump, did this.
Yeah, you have to include Mitchcarry O'Connel on this
And the massive asshole gingrich
Biden could have changed them back. But didn't and let it happen. So who to blame?
Biden does not have the magical power to undo SCOTUS decisions or state legislature shennaigans. Reublican obstructionists in the legislature will keep anything from being fixed through federal laws.
Only a moron would blame Biden. Republicans are to blame.
I need to find a way to blame both sides instead of the one clearly doing most of the damage. Can't you work with me, here?
Tell me how long has he been in his office?? He could have made his stance clear. Is he willing to say that out loud now?
He responded pretty quickly with the amount of power he has as president.
How would he do that?
It shouldn't surprise you. It's entirely intentional. The cruelty is the point.
Also it's about racism. black and brown people are more likely to die from child birth.
I hate Trump as much as the next guy. But let's get real. The GOP did this.
Remember when the GOP shut down the government twice under Obama? I remember. I never forgave them for that.
It's the argument that Never Trumpers love. "Trump isn't a real Republican and we didn't want this. We merely setup all the conditions for someone like Trump to come along and eat the party whole."
Eh, it's the culmination of decades of planning and scheming by the Heritage Foundation and others. Donald Trump is just a symptom. Sometimes a single symptom overshadows the whole disease.
Yeah, we've been heading down this path since Reagan.
The path has been clear since Regean, but even that wasn't the beginning.
How far back do you want to go? Agriculture might have been a bad move.
Something definitely happened in the 70s. The civil rights movement of the 60s, seemed to spark a principal skinner moment. Plus Watergate and push back against Vietnam. "Could we be out of touch? No it's the children"
Communism's boogeyman effect was wearing off, and the conservatives needed some new material. Racism is always a good lever. So you get the southern strategy, Powell memorandum, Heritage Foundation, and the seeds for what will become Fox News.
I think there's a good argument for the early 70s as a starting point.