Abortion ban causes preventable death in GA

[Opti]

www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/abortion-bans-have-delayed-emergency-medical-care-in-georgia-experts-say-this-mother-s-death-was-preventable/ar-AA1qDZCy?ocid=msedgntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=22913a02e3704a959e61b5c0b5cb6082&ei=14

Long and depressing story. Single mom now dead and her young son now orphaned. 

In her final hours, Amber Nicole Thurman suffered from a grave infection that her suburban Atlanta hospital was well-equipped to treat.

But just that summer, her state had made performing the procedure a felony, with few exceptions. Any doctor who violated the new Georgia law could be prosecuted and face up to a decade in prison.

Thurman waited in pain in a hospital bed, worried about what would happen to her 6-year-old son, as doctors monitored her infection spreading, her blood pressure sinking and her organs beginning to fail.



It took 20 hours for doctors to finally operate. By then, it was too late.

The otherwise healthy 28-year-old medical assistant, who had her sights set on nursing school, should not have died, an official state committee recently concluded.

[busymom]

I feel so badly for this woman & her family.  Of course it was just a matter of time before women begin to die from these draconian laws, and the doctors fear being punished so they won't intervene even when they should.  I hope the family sues, and sues "bigly", not to mention they should challenge the law in court to overturn this stupidity & prevent future deaths.  That's what happens when politicians make medical laws.  No one is safe.  

[happyhoix]

I read about this woman, and also another woman in Georgia who was in her forties, with several kids. She had diabetes, high blood pressure and a third chronic disease I can’t remember at the moment - she accidentally got pregnant, then went to a different state to get the abortion pills. She ended up with a partial miscarriage, and bleed to death in her bed because she couldn’t get help at the hospital.

The medical board said both these women died as a result of the current Georgia restrictions on what hospitals could do for women.

Anti abortion activists are blaming the victims, saying that if they had gone ahead with their pregnancies, they would be alive and so would their babies.

Some of them claim the ‘abortion industry’ forced them to have abortions - because women are so silly we can very easily be made to do things against our will, I guess.

[Tennesseer]

[happyhoix]

A Georgia state judge says the state can’t enforce a six week abortion ban.

The judge, a Republican, says it violated the state constitution. The judge said ‘whether one couches it as liberty or privacy (or even equal protection) this dispute is fundamentally about the extent of a woman’s right to control what happens to and within her body.

‘Women alone should choose whether they serve as human incubators for the five months leading up to viability.’

😀

Georgia says it will appeal, but for now, no six week ban.

[djAdvocate]

Oct 1, 2024 7:25:46 GMT -5 happyhoix said:

A Georgia state judge says the state can’t enforce a six week abortion ban.

The judge, a Republican, says it violated the state constitution. The judge said ‘whether one couches it as liberty or privacy (or even equal protection) this dispute is fundamentally about the extent of a woman’s right to control what happens to and within her body.

‘Women alone should choose whether they serve as human incubators for the five months leading up to viability.’

😀

Georgia says it will appeal, but for now, no six week ban.

this opinion is almost precisely where the center-line of the US public is on this issue.