#AbortionBans Have Delayed #Emergency #Medical Care. In #Georgia, Experts Say This #Mother’s #Death Was #Preventable.
≥2 women in GA died after they couldn’t access #legal #abortions & timely #MedicalCare in their state, @ProPublica has found. This is one of their stories.
#law #SCOTUS #RoeVWade #Dobbs #AbortionIsHealthcare #abortion #ReproductiveRights #ReproductiveHealth
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-abortion-ban-amber-thurman-death
…just that summer, her state had made [#abortion] a #felony, w/few exceptions. Any #doctor who violated the new #Georgia #law could be prosecuted & face up to a decade in #prison.
#AmberThurman waited in #pain in a hospital bed, worried about what would happen to her 6-yr-old son, as doctors monitored her infection spreading, her blood pressure sinking & her organs beginning to fail.
It took 20 hrs for doctors to finally operate. By then, it was too late.
The otherwise healthy 28-year-old medical assistant, who had her sights set on nursing school, should not have died, an official #Georgia state committee recently concluded.
Tasked w/examining #pregnancy-related #deaths to improve #MaternalHealth, the experts, including 10 doctors, deemed hers “#preventable” & said the #hospital’s delay in performing the critical procedure [#abortion] had a “large” impact on her #fatal outcome.
#law #SCOTUS #AbortionIsHealthcare #ReproductiveRights #Health
Their reviews of individual patient cases are not made public. But ProPublica obtained reports that confirm that at least 2 women have already #died after they couldn’t #access #legal #abortions & timely #medical care in their state [due to #AbortionBans & #restrictions].
There are almost certainly others.
#Georgia #law #SCOTUS #RoeVWade #Dobbs #AbortionIsHealthcare #abortion #ReproductiveRights #ReproductiveHealth
Cmtes like the one in #Georgia, set up in each state, often operate w/a 2-yr lag behind the cases they examine, meaning that experts are only now beginning to delve into #deaths that took place after #SCOTUS overturned the federal right to #abortion.
#AmberThurman’s case marks the first time an abortion-related #death, officially deemed “#preventable,” is coming to public light. ProPublica will share the story of the second in the coming days.
[Propublica is] also exploring other deaths that have not yet been reviewed but appear to be connected to #AbortionBans.
#Doctors warned state #legislators #women would die if #medical procedures sometimes needed to save lives became illegal.
Though #Republican lawmakers who voted for state bans on #abortion say the #laws have *exceptions* to protect the “life of the mother,” medical experts cautioned that the language is not rooted in #science & ignores the fast-moving realities of #medicine.
@Nonilex propublica is a really slanted publication that relies on clickbait these days.
It would be much more useful if we focused on the way that doctors are getting the laws wrong and setting up special interest groups to promote their own ideas, that are kind of off the wall in the first place. They need to be called out for that.
Doesn't make as good a story, though, so propublica focuses on the conspiracy theory type stuff, letting them off the hook.
It's not good for society and propublica needs to be called out for the sensationalism that they make their money on.
