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tetedur

(950 posts)
Tue Sep 17, 2024, 05:10 PM Tuesday

If I would have been refused a procedure to save my life when I needed an abortion

and if I was bleeding out and was told to go to the parking lot, I'm sorry I'd tell them no I'm going to bleed out here in the lobby of your hospital.
And I get someone to live stream it.

(big talk but oh boy this pisses me off.)

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If I would have been refused a procedure to save my life when I needed an abortion (Original Post) tetedur Tuesday OP
I was lucky for having my miscarriage decades ago. When Drs didn't have to worry about this crap. flying_wahini Tuesday #1
She was already showing signs of sepsis when she first arrived--to have her wait 20 hours violates EVERY hlthe2b Tuesday #2
This would be so horrific and terrifying Leghorn21 Tuesday #3
Allwayshopefu Alwayshopefull Tuesday #4

flying_wahini

(7,715 posts)
1. I was lucky for having my miscarriage decades ago. When Drs didn't have to worry about this crap.
Tue Sep 17, 2024, 05:30 PM
Tuesday

If I had it today? I would probably have died for all the wrong reasons.
And the saddest part is that THEY are dying.
Real women. Horrible and inexcusable deaths.

hlthe2b

(104,971 posts)
2. She was already showing signs of sepsis when she first arrived--to have her wait 20 hours violates EVERY
Tue Sep 17, 2024, 05:31 PM
Tuesday

protocol for the treatment of sepsis throughout the country and, in fact, internationally. Dystocia in dogs presented to a veterinary emergency clinic (especially with dead pups in the uterus) would have gone to surgery immediately. Honestly, that poor woman would have gotten better treatment had an emergency veterinary surgeon gone out on a limb and treated her--which of course they could not for obvious reasons.

But for those of us who understand the process and treatment of septic shock, this is just beyond malpractice--no matter what else you say. No physician should be put under this choice. AMA and all the ER physicians and OB/GYNs in the state should find the meanest, most determined lawyer to bring a class action lawsuit against the state of GA... It would eventually end up in the federal courts and ultimately at SCOTUS. No matter the result, the public education of what is going on would unleash the most dramatic blowback.

For now, women of childbearing age simply should NOT live, work, or attend universities in these states. PERIOD.

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