Abortion Bans Have Delayed Emergency Medical Care. In Georgia, Experts Say This Mother's Death Was Preventable.

[babylonsister]

Abortion Bans Have Delayed Emergency Medical Care. In Georgia, Experts Say This Mother’s Death Was Preventable.
At least two women in Georgia died after they couldn’t access legal abortions and timely medical care in their state, ProPublica has found. This is one of their stories.
by Kavitha Surana
Sept. 16, 5 a.m. EDT

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In her final hours, Amber Nicole Thurman suffered from a grave infection that her suburban Atlanta hospital was well-equipped to treat.

She’d taken abortion pills and encountered a rare complication; she had not expelled all of the fetal tissue from her body. She showed up at Piedmont Henry Hospital in need of a routine procedure to clear it from her uterus, called a dilation and curettage, or D&C.

But just that summer, her state had made performing the procedure a felony, with few exceptions. Any doctor who violated the new Georgia law could be prosecuted and face up to a decade in prison.

Thurman waited in pain in a hospital bed, worried about what would happen to her 6-year-old son, as doctors monitored her infection spreading, her blood pressure sinking and her organs beginning to fail.

It took 20 hours for doctors to finally operate. By then, it was too late.

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[Ilsa]

1. I would sue the hospital, staff, everyone, whether they

had malpractice insurance or not.

[Lovie777]

2. The GQP do not care........................

[sheshe2]

3. Sooo, let me see if I have this right.

If they had performed the procedure when she was admitted to the hospital she would have lived and they would have faced a decade in prison? So instead they waited 20 hours, watched her suffering and dying which is against every oath a doctor takes, to finally perform the procedure. So in the end they willfully followed a law, let her die and they face no charges of murder.

Make this make sense.

[yardwork]

7. I hope her family sues them into oblivion,

Her six year old son lost his mother because a hospital let her die, on purpose.

[sheshe2]

14. I know, her son no longer has a mother and that pains me.

Yes, sue the hospital and also sue the people that are making these draconian laws!

[evolves]

18. These laws have tied the hands of physicians.

The choice is prison and permanent loss of the ability to practice medicine versus malpractice and a lifetime of anguish knowing you could have provided care but didn’t.

How would you handle that Catch-22?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

27. Some doctors are fine letting their patients die to "protect their license." Some think it has nothing to do with them.

Some find ways to perform lifesaving procedures. Some are organizing to help others find ways to perform these procedures and develop strategies to protect themselves legally. It all depends on what side someone wants to be on.

[evolves]

29. Certainly.

However, most of us are fighting tooth and nail to keep our patients safe.
Most of us take this very seriously.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

31. What I'm saying is these laws tie the hands of only some physicians.

[evolves]

33. All physicians in red states

with draconian abortion bans.

[Solly Mack]

4. Deliberately killing women as punishment. Life and death over women, they hold the power and they've cowed healthcare

professionals (and others who offer help to women).

Control.

[Clouds Passing]

5. Amber

I’m deeply sorry you had to endure such a lack of compassion and humanity

[yardwork]

6. I can't express my rage about this.

[flying_wahini]

8. How sad. Such a preventable death. I'm so lucky I got the care I needed 30 years ago. It saved my life.

Such horrible people to follow the law but leave a woman to die. It’s such a simple procedure.

[evolves]

19. If you break the law

you lose your ability to earn a living AND your freedom.

It’s a HORRIBLE choice to make.

[tinrobot]

9. I wonder if there's a way to sue the state for malpractice

When the state decides to insert itself into a doctor's medical decisions, they also have to take responsibility for the medical consequences.

[evolves]

20. This has been tried.

To date, such attempts have gone nowhere.

[joshcryer]

10. When the bans came out I calculated how many women would die.

It's about 20 a year. Who will die. Because of Trump and the SCOTUS. That's only including those who would die due to non-abortive care. It does not include the many many women whose lives are upended by unintended pregnancies and forced birth (who may live short term but whose lives will be damaged irreparably by an unwanted child). I couldn't think of a way to make that calculation. I simply did the calculation for mortality and the number of new expected pregnancies. We aren't going to know the full impact for a few years but it likely going to be hundreds of dead women due to this (only way to see that is to wait for the stats to come in).

This is an incalculable tragedy and I fear it will not be reversed until we have a serious case of a very public death by a young woman who is begging for her life with no one to help her: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Savita_Halappanavar

[4catsmom]

11. it's all about punishing the mom not protecting life

so mission accomplished for Georgia nazis.

[Botany]

12. Vengeance is mine saith the women and those who love 'em.

https://oceantoday.noaa.gov/every-full-moon/episode10-tsunami/welcome.html

We are looking at a massive blue wave. Do not be surprised if some really red states
flip this fall. Think of all those good white “Christian Housewives” in their comfortable
suburban homes who back in the day had abortions or had friends and or family that
needed them.

Freedom of Religion also means freedom from Religion too.

Amber Nicole Thurman Is going along “for the ride” with millions of voters this fall.

[Timeflyer]

13. Are there any US laws that force doctors to delay lifesaving medical care for men? Let's start asking.

[evolves]

21. Nope.

NONE.

[TommieMommy]

15. How horrible, my heart goes out to her family.

This is the exact problem that Kamala was talking about, women suffering and bleeding out, all the complications that can happen. I've never dispised anyone in my life like I do him that piece of 💩

[Figarosmom]

16. So why wasnt she

Taken by ambulance or helicopter yo a place they could do a d&c w/o going to prison? If it was her heart or any other operation that's what they would do.

So can men still legally get a vasectomy ? Isn't that what they would call killing babies since that's what they say about birth control. I remember in the 60 sand 70s women who wNted hystrectomies were denied because it was morally wrong in the opinion of the powers that be.

[evolves]

22. Who would pay for that?

NOT the insurance company, so it won’t happen.

[Zilli]

17. Dead women is the goal

[electric_blue68]

25. I would qualify that as Independent Minded Dead Women...

I'm thinking compliant women are not considered a problem.

[Quanto Magnus]

23. All of the reps that voted for the abortion ban(s)

should be charged with reckless endangerment.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

24. Statement of Vice President Harris on Report of Georgia Death under Abortion Ban

Link to tweet

[electric_blue68]

26. It IS Infuriating! Voting Power! 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊

[keithbvadu2]

28. Dead women are no big deal to supposed pro-life republicans. It is not about life. It is about control.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

30. ..

[lindysalsagal]

32. Legislators were warned 2 weeks before the vote. Women will die.