A woman experiencing bleeding was not admitted by doctors in Idaho until her fourth ER visit in one week, due to fear and confusion over the state's abortion ban.

Summary

An Idaho doctor testified that confusion over the state’s strict abortion bans left a miscarrying patient “passed around like a hot potato” as doctors avoided treating her out of fear of legal consequences.

The 14-week pregnant woman, suffering heavy bleeding and anemia, was denied care during three ER visits before being admitted against hospital rules, miscarrying, and requiring a blood transfusion.

The testimony is part of a lawsuit challenging Idaho’s abortion laws, which ban most abortions with few exceptions, leaving patients in dangerous situations without timely care.

    • thefartographer@lemm.ee
      451·
      13 hours ago

      Genuinely, they should be called Matricide Laws. Tank it the same way Republicans keep trying to tank “Obamacare”

      • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
        20·
        12 hours ago

        Matricide is too fancy a word.

        Give it something simpler and more outrageous, like “Killing Moms Law” and talk about the Trump death panels who chose this.

      • PunnyName@lemmy.world
        11·
        13 hours ago

        They’re the ones who came up with the name Obamacare, so that it would tank on name alone.

        • thefartographer@lemm.ee
          131·
          13 hours ago

          Yes, exactly. Which is why people should start going to town hall meetings, Senate hearings, etc. and asking various questions about “Matricide Laws.” When they get corrected that these are abortion bans, explain that the law is killing hopeful mothers and these lawmakers are okay with it—if matricide wasn’t the point, it certainly appears to be a welcome side-effect.

      • jonne@infosec.pub
        22·
        13 hours ago

        Every private insurer has a death panel that is only accountable to share holders. Progressives need to start framing stuff in those terms instead of letting the Republicans bully them into accepting their framing.

        • nomous@lemmy.world
          9·
          11 hours ago

          The republican party is constantly able to dominate the conversation. Every election cycle they decide whether immigration/economics/war/whatever is what will be discussed and the democrats try to play defense instead of just calling them out.

          “Death panels already exist do you want them to be purely for-profit?” it’s not even that hard they’re just incompetent.

          • jonne@infosec.pub
            1·
            6 hours ago

            Part of it is that they want to placate their “moderate” wing too (read: the donors). If your plan is Medicare for All, you can say that and it’s easy to explain to people. If your plan is the Affordable Care Act, you’ll still have the for profit death panels, so you’d have to say something like: ‘we’ll regulate the existing death panels slightly more and force you to sign up to them’, which doesn’t actually sound that great.

      • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
        6·
        13 hours ago

        Every accusation is a confession. These won’t be the only death panels, either. Far, far worse is to come. They’re willing to kill anyone in defence of their supposed ‘superior morals’.