I hope the Associated Press is an acceptable source for you regarding real life examples of pregnant women in crisis being turned away from hospital emergency rooms.
Emergency rooms refused to treat pregnant women, leaving one to miscarry in a lobby restroom
Complaints about pregnant women being turned away from emergency rooms spiked in the months after states began enacting strict abortion laws following the 2022 U.S.apnews.com
Thank you Crossfire...
Let me first share my personal frustration and that being my lack of trust for the media. From CNN to Fox, there has been so much abuse, lies and gaslighing, I just have to approach it with much distrust...
so here goes:
"WASHINGTON (AP) — One woman miscarried in the lobby restroom of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to check her in. "
I have no doubt she miscarried in the lobby restroom. But no explanation as to “why was she refused to check her in”? My granddaughter was refused to be checked in on an appendicitis… but it was because there were no beds available at that time. What is lacking here is “why was she refused."
EDIT: found this:
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“She is bleeding a lot and had a miscarriage,” the husband told first responders in his call, which was transcribed from Spanish in federal documents. “I’m here at the hospital but they told us they can’t help us because we are not their client.”
It had nothing to do with ’the law” but rather “not my client”.
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.
This one seems to have gaping hole. Since when does a “security guard” decide who goes in and who goes out? There just has to be more to this story. Explanation:
EDITED: In Melbourne, Florida, a security guard at Holmes Regional Medical Center refused to let a pregnant woman into the triage area because she had brought a child with her.
Nothing to do with the law enacted. Makes the AP suspect of promoting an agenda
And in North Carolina, a woman gave birth in a car after an emergency room couldn’t offer an ultrasound. The baby later died.
Again… this is just weird. No explanation. Did they have the equipment? It didn’t say she wasn’t to come in because of abortion laws but simply “they couldn’t offer it.
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.
Here is the clincher. There is absolutely nothing here that any of the above was due to the laws that were enacted. Even the information after didn’t even tie it to the laws or provide any information on these three cases. It then moves to say "It is not known how many complaints were filed last year as the records request only asked for 2022 “ - if they only asked for 2022, how can they say it spiked from 2021 without the figures?
what it did say was:
Federal law requires emergency rooms to treat or stabilize patients who are in active labor and provide a medical transfer to another hospital if they don’t have the staff or resources to treat them. Medical facilities must comply with the law if they accept Medicare funding.
It is a law that they have to provide services. If they could and didn’t, it is grounds for a lawsuit no matter what the reason.
So this really leaves me wondering if this is a “let’s sell some news and push an agenda effort” - because it really doesn’t give information. I’ve AP presentation and every piece just gives me more questions.
Of course all these women should have been treated and their lives are important but it has nothing to do with “the newly enacted laws”.
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