Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Here's the instant legacy of the Value Them Both anti-abortion ideologues

 
Ideologically rabid anti-abortionists are doing great harm to medical care for women.

HeadlineKaiser Health News, 8/19/2022
The doctors interviewed for this article said that they are not speaking on behalf of their school of medicine but rather about their personal experiences during a tumultuous moment that they worry will affect the way they care for their patients.   
The vitriol directed at Bernard hit home for this group of residents. She has mentored most of them for years. Many of the young doctors were certain they wanted to practice in Indiana after their training. But lately, some have been ambivalent about that prospect. 
Dr. Beatrice Soderholm, a fourth-year OB-GYN resident, said watching what Bernard went through was “scary.” “I think that was part of the point for those who were putting her through that,” Soderholm said. They were trying “to scare other people out of doing the work that she does.”

Related posts: 
Republicans say they "value them both". Watch what they do, not what they say.  (8/6/2022)
Deceitful pro-sperm-and-egg organization in deep denial after crushing defeat of "Value Them Both" amendment to Kansas constitution.  (8/4/2022)
Meet Tory Marie Blew, Kansas anti-abortion extremists who wants to punish women.  (7/5/2022))
Kansas GOP shamelessly uses "Value Them Both" constitutional amendment as a recruiting tool for Kansas City voters.  (6/26/2022)


8/22/2022 update starts here

HeadlineMilwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8/17/2022
Before this summer, when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling on abortion, Sharma would have known exactly what to do. The patient's fetus had virtually no chance of survival. Under such circumstances, she would have recommended an abortion. 
That was before access to abortion services was significantly curtailed in Wisconsin; before doctors worried about being prosecuted for providing those services; and before pregnant patients had to wait for a complication to turn life-threatening to receive abortion care.
Value them both?  Only if we're talking about the sperm and the egg.


Original 8/21/2022 post starts here

Headline:  New York Times, 8/19/2022
After Ms. Davis learned that the abortion clinic in Baton Rouge had shut down, she returned to her hospital only to find out that she could not get the procedure there; the hospital has since said that the state’s new abortion bans raised concerns that doctors who treat patients with “medically futile diagnoses” remain in compliance with the law. 
Ms. Davis said the hospital diagnosed her fetus with acrania, a fatal condition in which the fetus does not form a skull. “I’m carrying this baby just to bury it,” Ms. Davis said. 
That specific diagnosis does not yet appear on the state’s list of acceptable conditions for an abortion exception.
 

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