Dozens of pregnant women, some bleeding or in labor, are turned away from ERs despite federal law
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More than 100 pregnant women in medical distress who sought help from emergency rooms have been turned away or negligently treated since 2022.

Bleeding and in pain, Kyleigh Thurman didn’t know her doomed pregnancy could kill her.

Emergency room doctors at Ascension Seton Williamson in Texas handed her a pamphlet on miscarriage and told her to “let nature take its course” before discharging her without treatment for her ectopic pregnancy.

When the 25-year-old returned three days later, still bleeding, doctors finally agreed to give her an injection intended to end the pregnancy. But it was too late. The fertilized egg growing on Thurman’s fallopian tube would rupture it, destroying part of her reproductive system.

That’s according to a complaint Thurman and the Center for Reproductive Rights filed last week asking the government to investigate whether the hospital violated a federal law when staff failed to treat her initially in February 2023.

“I was left to flail,” Thurman said. “It was nothing short of being misled.”

Even as the Biden administration has publicly warned hospitals to treat pregnant patients in emergencies, facilities continue to violate the federal law.

More than 100 pregnant women in medical distress who sought help from emergency rooms were turned away or negligently treated since 2022, an Associated Press analysis of federal hospital investigations has found.

  • cashmaggot@piefed.socialEnglish
    9·
    4 months ago

    Ah, I figured it had to be an abortion situation. Yeah, that’s fucking awful. I am not really sure we decided to walk backwards as a people. But what we do about it from this point on is really in the hands of the voters.

    • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      4 months ago

      Or we could take direct action, help women get access to abortions even if they’re illegal. Everything from driving them to Mexico to darknet market abortion pills.

      • cashmaggot@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        4 months ago

        I hear you but ectopic pregnancies I am not sure that’s something that can just be handled with pills.

        *Ah, see the drive to Mexico thing. I have a bleak hot-take on it that’s not very nice and it’s definitely coming from a dark place. I guess I’ll just put there’s certain places in America I have always avoided regardless of their small bastion cities. And generally people never really got why I felt that way if I opened my mouth on it. But I think people are starting to see big picture how I formed that opinion, over twenty years ago.

        Ultimately though, women should be able to seek medical assistance at their closest hospital. And the fact that, that’s not on the table and sits right with a large chunk of Americans seems bizarre.

        The reason why I am just saying vote is because liberals (which I will assume is a large chunk of this space in general) put up a large fervor but where was that fervor when Trump got elected first go round? My dipshit ex wrote in Bernie Sanders regardless of how much I pleaded for her to just vote Hilary and look at where we’re at. And yeah, Russians blah - blah -blah! But at the end of the day liberals lived too far in their own heads and created this mess in the first place. So get off your asses this November and vote! Dips.