Erin Hawley Wants ER Doctors Like Me to Do What, Now?
54 years, 11 months ago

Erin Hawley Wants ER Doctors Like Me to Do What, Now?

Slate  

Listening to oral arguments on Tuesday in the Supreme Court’s medication abortion case as an emergency room physician who has seen my share of miscarriage management, it was hard to escape a feeling of rage and disequilibrium. On almost every one of my emergency department shifts, I care for a patient who is having vaginal bleeding while pregnant or being evaluated for a possible ectopic pregnancy. But given my experience and expertise in women’s reproductive health care, specifically in the care of pregnant patients in emergency departments, I felt it was important to listen to every word. She claimed, and, I believe, with a straight face, that her clients couldn’t deliver standard miscarriage care because of the possibility that the patient had taken medication prior to the termination of the pregnancy. By arguing that her clients could refuse care to any patient during a course of care because of the possibility that they may have taken a medication that already definitively ended the pregnancy, she opened a Pandora’s box of ways physicians, and other providers, could refuse care to patients, including at least one that is entirely inconsistent with the practice of medicine as I know it.

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Third woman dies under Texas’ abortion ban as doctors use riskier miscarriage treatments
4 weeks, 1 day ago

Third woman dies under Texas’ abortion ban as doctors use riskier miscarriage treatments

Raw Story  

Wrapping his wife in a blanket as she mourned the loss of her pregnancy at 11 weeks, Hope Ngumezi wondered why no obstetrician was coming to see her. But when Dr. Andrew Ryan Davis, the obstetrician on duty, finally arrived, he said it was the hospital’s “routine” to give a drug called misoprostol to help the body pass the tissue, …

Doctors reaching for riskier miscarriage treatment as a third woman dies under Texas’ abortion ban
1 month ago

Doctors reaching for riskier miscarriage treatment as a third woman dies under Texas’ abortion ban

Salon  

Series: Life of the Mother: How Abortion Bans Lead to Preventable Deaths More in this series Wrapping his wife in a blanket as she mourned the loss of her pregnancy at 11 weeks, Hope Ngumezi wondered why no obstetrician was coming to see her. But when Dr. Andrew Ryan Davis, the obstetrician on duty, finally arrived, he said it was …

Why Record Numbers of People Who Aren’t Pregnant Are Ordering Abortion Medication
2 months ago

Why Record Numbers of People Who Aren’t Pregnant Are Ordering Abortion Medication

Slate  

Since the fall of Roe v. Wade in 2022, a growing number of people in the United States are buying abortion pills and keeping them on hand just in case they need them in the future. Some states have been removing the “known pregnancy” requirements since Dobbs, potentially making it easier to prosecute advance provision, missed period pills, and other …

Tennessee judges say doctors can't be disciplined for providing emergency abortions
2 months, 1 week ago

Tennessee judges say doctors can't be disciplined for providing emergency abortions

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A three-judge panel on Thursday …

Congressional Democrats push resolution that says hospitals must provide emergency abortions
3 months, 1 week ago

Congressional Democrats push resolution that says hospitals must provide emergency abortions

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — A resolution introduced by Congressional Democrats would make clear that U.S. emergency rooms need to provide emergency abortions when a woman’s health or life is at risk, despite strict state abortion bans. But since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the national right to an abortion and states enacted strict abortion bans, confusion and conflict have emerged when pregnant …

"Dangerously warped": Care for pregnant people since Dobbs is "compromised," doctors say
3 months, 2 weeks ago

"Dangerously warped": Care for pregnant people since Dobbs is "compromised," doctors say

Salon  

Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade with the Dobbs decision, doctors on the frontlines have shared horror stories about how medical care for pregnant people has changed. "Our findings suggest that, rather than increasing clarity and identifying workarounds over time to provide evidence- based care, abortion bans have fundamentally altered how pregnancy-related care — and even other medical …

In wake of Supreme Court ruling, Biden administration tells doctors to provide emergency abortions
5 months, 3 weeks ago

In wake of Supreme Court ruling, Biden administration tells doctors to provide emergency abortions

LA Times  

At Sacred Heart Emergency Center in Houston and other urgent care facilities, doctors are being told in letters from the Biden administration that they must perform emergency abortions when necessary to save a pregnant woman’s health. The Biden administration told emergency room doctors they must perform emergency abortions when necessary to save a pregnant woman’s health, following last week’s Supreme …

Biden administration sends sharp reminder to doctors about obligation to provide emergency abortions
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Biden administration sends sharp reminder to doctors about obligation to provide emergency abortions

CNN  

CNN — In letters to health-care providers Tuesday, the Biden administration reaffirmed its commitment to ensuring that pregnant people have access to emergency treatment, even if that treatment necessitates an abortion and the person lives in a state with an abortion ban. The Biden administration argued that the law violates the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, also known …

"No real clarity": Supreme Court emergency abortion decision leaving Idaho physicians in the dark
5 months, 3 weeks ago

"No real clarity": Supreme Court emergency abortion decision leaving Idaho physicians in the dark

Salon  

Last week, the Supreme Court dismissed a case brought forth by Idaho that challenged doctors' ability to provide emergency abortions to stabilize a patient’s health and life. “EMTALA, as we previously understood it, is now fully functional in Idaho, so we can provide stabilizing, emergency care to pregnant women if that requires an abortion,” Kara Cadwallader, who is a family …

Editorial: Supreme Court squandered a chance to protect medically necessary abortions
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Editorial: Supreme Court squandered a chance to protect medically necessary abortions

LA Times  

A group of doctors join abortion rights supporters at a rally outside the Supreme Court on April 24. The Supreme Court on Thursday put back in place an injunction from a lower court that blocks a draconian portion of Idaho’s abortion ban which only allows emergency abortions to prevent a pregnant person’s death. Ideally, the court would have ruled that …

Despite Supreme Court ruling, the future of emergency abortions is still unclear for US women
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Despite Supreme Court ruling, the future of emergency abortions is still unclear for US women

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court did not settle the debate over whether federal law requires hospitals to stabilize pregnant patients with emergency abortions on Wednesday, despite saying Idaho hospitals can provide abortions in medical emergencies even with the state’s restrictions. Health and legal experts say Thursday’s order that divided the Supreme Court’s conservatives does nothing to protect pregnant women …

Sam Alito Isn’t a Doctor, but He’s Playing One at the Supreme Court
54 years, 11 months ago

Sam Alito Isn’t a Doctor, but He’s Playing One at the Supreme Court

Slate  

Much will be written about the impact of Moyle v. United States, the decision leaked on Wednesday and officially released on Thursday. Throughout his dissent Alito uses inflammatory language like “abortion on demand” to describe circumstances where patients and their providers may jointly decide to terminate a pregnancy in the course of emergency medical care. Alito goes on to say, …

Supreme Court dismisses Idaho abortion challenge, allowing doctors to perform emergency abortions
5 months, 4 weeks ago

Supreme Court dismisses Idaho abortion challenge, allowing doctors to perform emergency abortions

Salon  

On Thursday, The Supreme Court ruled that doctors are allowed to provide emergency abortions to stabilize a patient’s health and life, meaning Idaho’s near-total abortion ban does not take precedence over a federal law known as the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act The 6-3 opinion included three dissenting Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas, while three of …

What is the federal law at the center of the Supreme Court’s latest abortion case?
5 months, 4 weeks ago

What is the federal law at the center of the Supreme Court’s latest abortion case?

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appears ready to rule that hospitals in Idaho may provide medically necessary abortions to stabilize patients at least for now, despite the state’s strict abortion law, according to a copy of the opinion that was briefly posted on Wednesday to the court’s website and obtained by Bloomberg News. The Biden administration argues that Idaho’s law …

How treatment of miscarriages is upending the abortion debate
8 months ago

How treatment of miscarriages is upending the abortion debate

LA Times  

Amanda Zurawski, a woman featured in a Biden campaign ad about her experience losing her fetus and then being unable to access prompt medical care, is shown speaking in front of the Texas Capitol in Austin in 2023. The Biden campaign launched this ad a day before the Arizona Supreme Court upheld a near-total abortion ban dating back to 1864, …

Supreme Court sounds wary of Idaho’s ban on emergency abortions for women whose health is in danger
8 months ago

Supreme Court sounds wary of Idaho’s ban on emergency abortions for women whose health is in danger

LA Times  

The Supreme Court will decide whether emergency room doctors are allowed to perform abortions if a pregnant person’s health is threatened. Prelogar urged the high court to rule that federal emergency care law applies nationwide and sometimes requires hospitals and their doctors to perform an abortion — regardless of any state restrictions on the procedure — if a pregnant patient’s …

Editorial: Pregnant women are not incubators. Antiabortion states should not deny them emergency care
8 months ago

Editorial: Pregnant women are not incubators. Antiabortion states should not deny them emergency care

LA Times  

Hundreds march in a rally organized by Abortion Safe House LBC, a coalition of volunteers providing abortion services and safe shelter for pregnant people, in support of nationwide protests by Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights in Long Beach in 2022. It’s absurd that in the 21st century, the Supreme Court is debating how close to death pregnant women need to …

What’s EMTALA, the patient protection law at the center of Supreme Court abortion arguments?
8 months ago

What’s EMTALA, the patient protection law at the center of Supreme Court abortion arguments?

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a case that could determine whether doctors can provide abortions to pregnant women with medical emergencies in states that enact abortion bans. The federal law, called the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, or EMTALA, requires doctors to stabilize or treat any patient who shows up at an emergency …

Yes, some medication abortion patients go to the ER — but it may not be for what you think
9 months ago

Yes, some medication abortion patients go to the ER — but it may not be for what you think

Salon  

Next Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will finally hear a case about mifepristone — the first drug used in a medication abortion. Specifically, in one of the retracted studies cited in U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s ruling, the authors claimed that mifepristone increased the risk of women going to the emergency room following a medication abortion compared to surgical abortions. …

Woman criminally charged after a miscarriage. It shows the perils of pregnancy post-Roe
1 year ago

Woman criminally charged after a miscarriage. It shows the perils of pregnancy post-Roe

LA Times  

Ohio was in the throes of a bitter debate over abortion rights earlier this fall when Brittany Watts, whose pregnancy was 21 weeks and 5 days along, began passing thick blood clots. prosecutors wanting to show that they are going to be vigilant — they’re going to take down women who violate the ethos coming out of the state’s legislature.” …

Anti-abortion laws harm patients facing dangerous and life-threatening complications, report finds
1 year, 7 months ago

Anti-abortion laws harm patients facing dangerous and life-threatening complications, report finds

The Independent  

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Hospitals that denied emergency abortion broke the law, U.S. says
1 year, 7 months ago

Hospitals that denied emergency abortion broke the law, U.S. says

LA Times  

Mylissa Farmer’s water broke at 17 weeks of pregnancy. The findings, revealed in documents obtained by the Associated Press, are a warning to hospitals around the country as they struggle to reconcile dozens of new state laws that ban or severely restrict abortion with a federal mandate for doctors to provide abortions when a woman’s health is at risk. “We …

'Severe, almost unimaginable cost': Physicians react to ruling placing abortion pill use in jeopardy
1 year, 8 months ago

'Severe, almost unimaginable cost': Physicians react to ruling placing abortion pill use in jeopardy

Raw Story  

A Texas federal judge with a history of anti-abortion beliefs has thrown into jeopardy the most common form of abortion since Roe v. Wade fell last summer. Ruling has implications for miscarriage management, doctor says In a “friend of the court” brief filed in the lawsuit in February, leading medical and public health societies that include the American College of …

Doctors urge NC lawmakers to oppose new abortion limits
1 year, 10 months ago

Doctors urge NC lawmakers to oppose new abortion limits

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — More than 1,000 health care providers across North Carolina have signed a letter urging lawmakers to oppose any additional abortion restrictions beyond the current 20-week limit, which some say already restricts their ability to care for patients. Dr. Alison Stuebe, a maternal-fetal medicine physician who specializes in high-risk pregnancies, described checking one patient’s lab results for several …

Despite dangerous pregnancy complications, abortions denied
2 years, 1 month ago

Despite dangerous pregnancy complications, abortions denied

Associated Press  

Weeks after Roe v. Wade was overturned, Dr. Grace Ferguson treated a woman whose water had broken halfway through pregnancy. “You slowly get sicker and sicker.” It’s impossible to say when that line is crossed, said Dr. Alison Haddock, who’s on the board of the American College of Emergency Physicians. Dr. Lauren Miller, a maternal-fetal specialist in Boise, said she …

Nurse practitioner says CVS fired her over abortion stance
2 years, 3 months ago

Nurse practitioner says CVS fired her over abortion stance

The Independent  

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When Can Dying Patients Get a Lifesaving Abortion? These Hospital Panels Will Now Decide.
2 years, 4 months ago

When Can Dying Patients Get a Lifesaving Abortion? These Hospital Panels Will Now Decide.

Slate  

When Elizabeth Weller’s water broke during the 18th week of her pregnancy, the prognosis was bleak: With almost no amniotic fluid left, the fetus could not survive. The committee feared that if doctors terminated Weller’s pregnancy before she was actively dying, they would face liability under Texas’ six-week abortion ban. After Roe’s fall, ethics committees are taking on a new …

Abortion foes downplay complex post-Roe v. Wade realities
2 years, 4 months ago

Abortion foes downplay complex post-Roe v. Wade realities

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — When a 10-year-old Ohio girl traveled to Indiana last month to end a pregnancy forced onto her by a rapist, several conservative politicians and TV pundits called the report a hoax. Catherine Glenn Foster, president of the anti-abortion Americans United for Life, added another defense for young rape victims: She told the House Judiciary Committee that a 10-year-old’s …

Abortion laws spark profound changes in other medical care
2 years, 5 months ago

Abortion laws spark profound changes in other medical care

Associated Press  

A sexual assault survivor chooses sterilization so that if she is ever attacked again, she won’t be forced to give birth to a rapist’s baby. It’s just one example of “the horrible downstream effects of criminalizing abortion care,’' said Dr. Catherine Romanos, who works at the Dayton clinic. “Whether it’s surgical or medical — that’s the treatment.’’ Now, he said, …

Texas sues health secretary over emergency abortion guidance
2 years, 5 months ago

Texas sues health secretary over emergency abortion guidance

Associated Press  

The state of Texas sued the federal government Thursday after the Biden administration said federal rules require hospitals to provide abortions if the procedure is necessary to save a mother’s life, even in cases where state law mostly bans the procedure. “The Biden Administration seeks to transform every emergency room in the country into a walk-in abortion clinic,” Texas Attorney …

Is it an abortion or a D&C? Medically speaking, "the steps are the same"
2 years, 5 months ago

Is it an abortion or a D&C? Medically speaking, "the steps are the same"

Salon  

If you went to the drug store and the pharmacist wouldn't let you have ibuprofen because he thinks there's a chance your headache is from a hangover and not from reading in dim light, you'd probably be furious. In Texas, a law restricting the use of "abortion inducing drugs" has led to hesitancy to provide miscarriage care, an NPR report …

Abortion Providers And Patients Prepare For A Post-Roe World
2 years, 7 months ago

Abortion Providers And Patients Prepare For A Post-Roe World

Huff Post  

Immediately after a leaked draft on Monday evening revealed that the Supreme Court was set to dismantle abortion rights, Robin Marty began fielding calls from her abortion clinic staff wondering if they would still open their doors the next day. “That’s something that we’ve been dealing with at the clinic all day.” Marty, along with other clinic staff and abortion …

Doctors say the Texas abortion ban is complicating other types of medical decisions
3 years, 2 months ago

Doctors say the Texas abortion ban is complicating other types of medical decisions

NPR  

Doctors say the Texas abortion ban is complicating other types of medical decisions Enlarge this image toggle caption Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters Each month, Dr. Andrea Palmer delivers about 20 babies, easily the best part of her job. Texas doctors like Palmer say SB 8, an unusual new state law banning most abortions, is complicating other types of medical decisions. …

How A Cruel Anti-Abortion Law Affected My Very Much Wanted Pregnancy
3 years, 3 months ago

How A Cruel Anti-Abortion Law Affected My Very Much Wanted Pregnancy

Huff Post  

The author with a portrait of Theodore and Holden. Helping my labor progress when my babies weren’t viable was akin to second-trimester abortion in Ohio, and therefore, they could only deliver them if two doctors signed a form certifying that my life was in danger. Ohio state law, section 2919.151, titled “Partial birth feticide,” states that “When the fetus that …

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