Bleeding and in pain, a woman endures a harrowing wait for miscarriage care due to Georgia’s restrictive abortion law
Bleeding and in pain, a woman endures a harrowing wait for miscarriage care due to Georgia’s restrictive abortion law
Had Avery Davis Bell had a miscarriage in Boston, where she lived until 2020, doctors could snap into action. But because she was having a miscarriage in a hospital in Georgia, surgery had to wait.
Summary
Avery Davis Bell faced severe complications with a miscarriage in Georgia, where restrictive abortion laws delayed her necessary medical care.
At 18 weeks pregnant, she was forced to wait for life-saving treatment due to Georgia’s abortion restrictions, which prevent immediate intervention unless a medical emergency escalates.
Bell’s experience highlights the risks imposed by post-Dobbs state laws, with maternal deaths rising faster in states with strict abortion bans.
The law’s impact on Bell’s experience highlights the inhumane consequences of abortion restrictions, which can lead to unnecessary suffering and even death.
Pretty soon this will be like a school shooting, hardly making the news and no one cares
As usual it will be thoughts and prayers and we just can't do anything about it.
I was literally going to say this.
Except I was going to phrase it:
This is going to become depressingly common, like school shootings. Soon it wont even make the news.
"God's will."
You're never going to be able to argue against that. No amount of explaining to them the atrocious cruelty of things like this trumps "God's will" for the anti-abortionists.
If you have a miscarriage, God' will. If you die and your baby lives, God's will. If you both die, God's will. If you would have lived if you had just had an abortion, YOU MURDERER!!!!
I think it’s god’s will when men aren’t able to get erections. It’s not natural to use viagara or cialis. Surely the same people so in tune with god’s will would agree with that one, right?
I mean, you can't argue against it philosophically, but you can argue against it legally, which is all that matters.
At least, you used to...
I think it’s God’s Will(TM) that I’m about to push them in front of oncoming traffic.
That’s not an accurate take. There are some pro-lifers who are like that but most are in favour of exceptions when it’s to save the mother’s life, or the fetus has a fatal deformity.
They just don’t (want to) understand that the intentionally vague wording of anti-abortion laws makes it basically impossible for doctors to perform medically indicated abortions until it’s too late to save the patient.
If you claim to be “pro-life” the least you can do is advocate for clear definitions of the medical circumstances where abortive medical procedures are permitted.
Most? Maybe. The ones in legislatures? Not so much. Especially not in Idaho, where even the life of the mother doesn't matter.
But you're right that they don't want to understand. They know what these "life of the mother excepted" laws lead to in practice. Especially now. And yet they haven't changed their minds. They're just putting their hands over their ears and saying, "LA LA LA LA LA!"
The law’s impact on Bell’s experience highlights the inhumane consequences of abortion restrictions, which can lead to unnecessary suffering and even death.
The purpose of a system is what it does
As the deaths continue to add up black market abortions will be performed like pre Roe under shitty conditions that will also result in more patients bleeding out or getting infection and sepsis.
Don't worry, we'll throw them in jail. That will fix the problem. /s
I wrote in my own name for president this time around. That way I'm sure to be 100% perfectly aligned with who I voted for. I'm sorry to hear about this but I just couldn't vote for Harris. /s
Harris and Biden are still currently in office. I'm not sure what kind of point you're trying to make here.
Coming soon nationwide.
Bell said she does not blame her doctors at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. Rather, she blames the law itself.
it is on the doctor's to either take the risk or quit
people have to step up for change to happen
I agree... However, I do understand the hesitance as well. Imagine spending untolds amount of money, and over a decade in school, only to end up with a 99 year prison sentence for preventing a woman with a miscarriage from dying.
Fuck this country.
"You save this lady's life or you don't have to find a new way to feed your kids" is not a position anyone should have to be put in.
I am sure the Trump administration will get right on this.
