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.

  • stembolts@programming.devEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I’m just sharing a fucked up shower thought.

    Sharing a fucked up shower thought gets negative points, so you won. The reward is unpopularity. Congrats.

    It wouldn’t take that long probably. Not with it being forced like that.

    Maybe share shower thoughts regarding topics you are an expert in, because you are clearly unknowledgeable about evolution. I share minimum numbers, in reality it could be billions of years, or never, because that is how evolution functions. You learn this very very very early in a study of the natural sciences, not even at a college level, I’d expect most people to understand this by 18 and certainly after any (non-fundamentalist) university education. It’s a very low bar.

    It seems like you’re taking this personally instead of a stupid comment on the internet

    You’re inferring subtext that was not being implied. Just read the text that is there. Not everything is a conflict, but given the combative framing of everything by media, I certainly empathize with your perception and understand why you would see it that way.

    I assure you that I was only trying to display the stupidity (to you, as I assume most others already understand evolution) by describing the mechanics of how evolution would function in the scenario you described and nothing more. I apologize for that, I suppose I could have done a better of preserving your feelings but chose not to do so.

    Think of my comment as a functional extension of your shower thought, a shower thought scientific add-on, like a non-slip mat to stop you and other unknowledgeable people being injured by thinking the outcome you describe is scientifically feasible, it is not.