Editorial: Pregnant women are not incubators. Antiabortion states should not deny them emergency care
by Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times— It’s absurd that in the 21st century, the Supreme Court is debating how close to death pregnant women need to be before doctors can perform a medically necessary abortion. But that’s where we are nearly two years after this same court in the Dobbs decision overturned the constitutional right to an abortion — and launched a profusion of state abortion laws that range from repressive to downright dystopian. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case challenging a law in Idaho that...
Los Angeles Times—Letters to the Editor: I miscarried and was denied care at first. Will women die in antiabortion states?. To the editor: The scenario of a miscarrying patient being denied medical treatment is not hypothetical. It's reality — I know because I lived it. ("How treatment of miscarriages is upending the abortion debate," April 25) In 1989, while living in Florida, I suffered a miscarriage at 14 weeks pregnant. Because my health insurance required that I go to one particular hospital (which did not allow abortions), my obstetrician was not able to give me the care I needed to prevent sepsis. I went home...
dailym.ai—Supreme Court deeply DIVIDED over Idaho abortion law: Justices get into heated argument over the 'shocking' scope of state's near-total ban that stops doctors giving women emergency care. Court heard arguments over Idaho case on abortions in medical emergencies. Biden administration believes Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act trumps state abortion laws in some cases. It's the first case over a state abortion ban to go before the court since Roe fell. Pro and anti-abortion rights protesters gathered outside the Supreme Court
Daily Kos—What happens when emergency rooms refuse to treat pregnant women. 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...