Florida congresswoman blames left-wing fearmongering for the reluctance of hospital staff to give her the drugs she needed to end an ectopic pregnancy
Florida congresswoman blames left-wing fearmongering for the reluctance of hospital staff to give her the drugs she needed to end an ectopic pregnancy
Kat Cammack blames left’s fearmongering after medical staff hesitated to give her drugs needed to end pregnancy
Florida congresswoman blames left-wing fearmongering for the reluctance of hospital staff to give her the drugs she needed to end an ectopic pregnancy that threatened her life
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Florida law allows abortion in the case of ectopic pregnancy or other situations where the mother's life is in danger. If the events she's presented are true it's hard to think other than that the hospital staff were not clear on the law, and no doubt public discourse (which naturally centres around the strictest laws) has had an effect on that.
But it's also possible that the "reluctance" was just a delay during which her doctors were getting the necessary two written opinions that it was necessary.
Bullshit. They spent that time:
- Doing the rest of their job, caring for all the other people
- Talking to legal and collecting required paperwork to support the legal case that the medical case is legal
And you know that how, exactly?
I suppose I don’t have any evidence, but think about it a little …
- Do you really think doctors have the extra time to dedicate an afternoon to doing paperwork? What about your experience with medical offices led you to expect all this free time?
- Do you really think doctors are deciding a contentious legal issue on their own? Do you understand why hospitals and other corporations even have a legal department?
- I don't think reviewing tests which indicate an ectopic pregnancy and writing that a patient has an ectopic pregnancy, that an ectopic pregnancy is a medical emergency, and than an abortion is therefore medically necessary, takes an afternoon. Doctors are busy, and this does take time, so this is a possible - even plausible reason for her to have thought they were dithering, but I also think that medical staff are usually communicative about what's going on.
- Certainly they are not, but I think in the period before the doctors go and talk to the lawyers there is ample room for confusion caused by public perception.
Wait, WHAT. They need two written opinions backing up that it was necessary?
In the Florida law, yes, if it's beyond the (impractically low) gestational age threshold.
This is not that surprising given the position of pro-lifers who think that life begins at conception. The UK just progressed an assisted-dying bill which would legalise the ending of the lives of terminally ill people; even with their consent, two written opinions are needed (in the bill, which is not yet law) to do this.
But yes, it's a lot of hurdles for something that should in general just be available as a medical procedure.
The part I find surprising is that dealing with an ectopic pregnancy is very time sensitive and very unforgiving. If you wait too long, it ruptures and your patient crashes and dies, and that's that. It's a bit like "well, we haven't stopped you from intervening with an aortic aneurysm, you just need two supporting opinions first lmao".
Probably male doctor opinions only. OBGYN optional if they are white.