Abortion USA

[L'Emmerdeur]

Here's hoping that items like the one below don't become as commonplace as mass shootings in the US. Meanwhile, another piece of evidence showing the harm being done by the overturning of Roe.

'A Coast Guard Commander Miscarried. She Nearly Died After Being Denied Care.'

• A Dangerous Denial: Cmdr. Elizabeth Nakagawa was denied a D&C for a miscarriage by military insurer Tricare in 2023, even though it had paid for the same procedure two years earlier.
• Barriers to Care: Federal law prohibits the military from paying for most abortion services. Some doctors say Tricare has delayed even permitted procedures, putting women at risk.
• Future Fallout: Nakagawa’s experience raises questions about whether the overturning of Roe v. Wade has created a chilling effect that has further complicated access to these procedures.

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The night the EMTs carried Elizabeth Nakagawa from her home, bleeding and in pain, the tarp they’d wrapped her in reminded her of a body bag.

Nakagawa, 39, is a Coast Guard commander: stoic, methodical, an engineer by trade. But as they maneuvered her past her young daughters’ bedroom, down the narrow steps and into the ambulance, she felt a stab of fear. She might never see her girls again.

Earlier that day, April 3, 2023, Nakagawa had been scheduled to have a surgical procedure called a D&C, or dilation and curettage, to remove fetal tissue after losing a very wanted pregnancy. But that morning, she was told the surgery had been canceled because Tricare, the military’s health insurance plan, refused to pay for it.

While her doctor appealed, Nakagawa waited. Then the cramps and bleeding began.

In recent months, ProPublica and other media outlets have told the stories of women who died or nearly died when state abortion restrictions imposed after the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision impeded them from getting critical care.

But long before Roe v. Wade was overturned, military service members and their families have faced strict limits on abortion services, which are commonly used to resolve miscarriages.

[Brian Peacock]

It's fucking heartbreaking.

[Svartalf]

AMA should do some massive unlicencing of doctors who break their hypocritical oath that blatantly

[macdoc]

um svarty its Hippocratic Oath unless you being smart ass.
Either way the US medical system sucks

[Svartalf]

um svarty its Hippocratic Oath unless you being smart ass.
Either way the US medical system sucks

I know, but that was a remark on how some medical folk seem to treat it.
If a guy whose first principle ought to be 'let no harm happen' lets a woman die because he won't treat a problem with her pregnancy that would need it to be terminated early, he sacrifices the mother for a baby that cannot survive anyway and is a twice murderer who ought to be disbarred and sent to prison for these crimes.

[Brian Peacock]

mac doesn't do irony

[Tero]

Pharmacists turn into doctors
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... tic-states
many pharmacies already have a nurse practitioner doing routine medical check ups in a booth near the pharmacy desk

[Svartalf]

they do that even here, they've started administering vaccines and Covid tests.... very convenient because I don't have to find an independent nurse or go bother my doctor

[JimC]

Many of our pharmacies offer vaccinations these days...

[macdoc]

Yeah we had our covid shots at pharmacy yesterday. Never even felt the needle...guy was good.

[Tero]

Missouri lawmakers move to repeal abortion protections enacted by voters

Missouri lawmakers passed a voter referendum Wednesday that, if approved, would repeal protections for abortion rights and restore a ban on nearly all abortion care in the state.

The move comes just six months after Missouri voters approved an amendment enshrining the right to reproductive freedom, including abortion care, in the state constitution, effectively overturning a near-total abortion ban that was in effect. A circuit court affirmed the right to reproductive freedom in December.

The bill now heads to the governor's desk, but does not need his signature to appear on a ballot.

The initiative will appear on the November 2026 ballot unless Gov. Mike Kehoe calls a special election sooner than that.

[Tero]

Brain dead woman delivers 1 pound baby
https://balleralert.com/profiles/blogs/ ... ves-birth/

[pErvinalia]

[Brian Peacock]

Many of our pharmacies offer vaccinations these days...

Yeah, pharmacists can prescribe here. I've recently had dressings and antiBs for an ulcerating wound after I gave myself a right good shinning.

[Svartalf]

Here it's entirely variable, pharmacists can prescribe and administer covid vax, but most have to be prescribed by an actual physician