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Patients will die if Supreme Court justices allow states to block doctors from providing emergency abortion care.

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[-] Gloria@sh.itjust.works 126 points 10 months ago

You remember when republicans were talking about death tribunals set up by democrats via the healthcare system? Projections all the way. They do not even give you healthcare to implement a death tribunal. The republican way of cruelty.

[-] Uglyhead@lemmy.world 39 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Death Panels! Obummer will literally kill you!

Don’t let healthcare be run by the gubmint! — Only the corporate have your best interests at heart!

Yeah I member that. I ‘member

large /s just in case

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

My only hesitation with Medicare for all is that these fucks exist.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

Time to post this:

Frame Canada: Wendell Potter spent decades scaring Americans. About Canada. He worked for the health insurance industry, and he knew that if Americans understood Canadian-style health care, they might.... like it. So he helped deploy an industry playbook for protecting the health insurance agency. https://www.npr.org/2020/10/19/925354134/frame-canada

[-] orcrist@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

It's amazing how patriotism blinds people. Many Americans honestly think they have an OK system, despite expat family members explaining clearly how bad the US health care system is.

I understand not believing some politician speaking on TV, but the denial is far stronger than that.

[-] 800XL@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

They just forgot to mention they'd be running the tribunals. Could happen to anyone!

[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 63 points 10 months ago

You gotta be dumber than dogshit to vote R.

[-] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

I firmly believe that conservatism in its current form is a mental illness - if you've seen someone move to the political right, you've almost certainly witnessed the cognitive decline (not to mention increase in paranoia, disgust, irritability, impatience and general irrationality) for yourself.

[-] Crikeste@lemm.ee 15 points 10 months ago

Dumb or evil. No in-between there.

[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 49 points 10 months ago

Idaho has argued that states — not doctors, and not the federal government — should be permitted to decide what kind of emergency medical care women can receive.

Small government something something

[-] Uglyhead@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Small [nonexistent] government for me…

…something something thee.

[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 41 points 10 months ago

Conservatives cheer this horror and mock those who are horrified.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

Because women aren't humans to them. They're property. They're toys. Toys can be discarded when you're done playing with them. So it's fine if women die to them.

[-] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 18 points 10 months ago

I'm glad they're using terminology like this. The "but both sides" watered down bullshit needs to end.

Red States want to kill women.

[-] ThrowawayInTheYear23@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago
[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's not even that...it's:

Some of you may die, but it is the will of my God." (Who you may or may not acknowledge)

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Will they really? They might just refuse to vote again to allow a lower courts say stick and not have to take the blame for ignoring womens rights to life

[-] autotldr 5 points 10 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


To the Supreme Court, Idaho has argued that states — not doctors, and not the federal government — should be permitted to decide what kind of emergency medical care women can receive.

As one doctor in the hospital chain to which Glick was repeatedly admitted told the magazine, “It’s very frustrating to have your hands tied because the patient who you need to save is not the one that’s protected by law.”

He cites as examples three recent patients he’s treated for pregnancy-related emergencies — cases he says he and his colleagues encounter “approximately a dozen times per year.”

The first patient was a 22-year-old who was 18 weeks pregnant and arrived at his hospital with a fever, tender uterus, and an elevated heart rate; an ultrasound revealed her water had broken many days earlier.

Cooper described three patients she treated between September 2021 and June 2022, when the Supreme Court delivered its decision overruling Roe v. Wade, eliminating the federal protection for abortion rights.

In another instance, Cooper recalled treating an expectant mother, 20 weeks pregnant, who arrived with acute “right upper abdominal pain” — a telltale symptom of preeclampsia.


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