Has anyone ever reached out to ACLU about denial of care at the Emergency Dept concerning your pain? I got this from ACLU this AM. Apparently, according to this ACLU email, only pregnant females who are denied care at a ED with long-standing protections to access necessary emergency care at hospitals are being discriminated against.
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| Steve, the Supreme Court is considering a second case that could devastate abortion access nationwide and make pregnant people second-class citizens in the emergency room.
Anti-abortion politicians are now trying to take away people’s power to get emergency care if they are facing severe complications during pregnancy. Their claim is that pregnant people are somehow excluded from long-standing protections to access necessary emergency care at hospitals – threatening doctors with prison time for providing abortion care in a medical emergency. We don’t need to tell you how disastrous this would be. Everyone has a right to the emergency treatment they need without political interference. That’s why we’re urging Congress to act to end state bans and protect all forms of reproductive health care – including emergency care, IVF, and medication abortion. We need you with us to send a clear message: Congress must defend our reproductive freedom.
Steve, federal law protects patients in emergency situations – patients experiencing medical crises should never be turned away from the emergency room. Period. But if anti-abortion activists win, doctors could face jail time for doing their medical duty – and pregnant patients could be left to suffer. It’s yet another prong of the coordinated campaign to push abortion out of reach entirely, proving that extreme politicians and the groups supporting them do not care about the well-being of pregnant people, do not care that abortion is supported by a vast majority of Americans, and does not care who they will hurt with their extreme agenda. Denying emergency care is not an accident – it’s an intentional part of their cruel vision for the world. Steve, it’s completely unacceptable – which is why we’re using every tool at our disposal to fight back. Thank you for all that you do, Alexa Kolbi-Molinas |
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I admit to being a bit torn –not that EDs should refuse to provide care for pregnant woman* seeking emergency care; it’s obscene that that’s even under discussion. But I’m so enraged at the ACLU (& all other supposed civil rights groups) for deliberately & determinedly refusing for many years to do anything to help chronic pain patients that I have a hard time granting them ANY credit or positive responses.
*And I find it beyond ludicrous that this article refers to pregnant “people.” Women, i.e. biologically XX females, are the only “people” getting pregnant. Chronic pain sufferers still can’t get recognized as being human & deserving of actual medical care, but the nonsensical extremist pronoun shuffle has spread this far?
Search has been the case in the area where I live for a very long time unfortunately. The majority of hospitals are Catholic owned and they do not provide even emergency abortive services when the mother’s life is in danger. My daughter had a cornic separation and was hemorrhaging and they would not do surgery to fix it. So we unfortunately had to take a trip to another town and spend several hundred dollars to save my daughter’s life. That should never be allowable or justifiable under any circumstances. I am very much anti abortion but this is wrong.
Such has been the case, not search.