No doctor should be forced to wait until their patient is “fixing to have a heart attack” to give essential care. Yet this is what abortion bans do. They’re cruel, extreme, and inhumane.
medical journal shows hospitals all over Oklahoma are struggling to interpret the laws and create policies that comply with the state's abortion bans. The resulting confusion is having dangerous consequences for women like Statton.In the study, the Center for Reproductive Rights, Oklahoma Call for Reproductive Justice and Physicians for Human Rights surveyed 34 hospitals around the state.
To conduct the research, several young women called 34 hospitals in the state with a script, saying they were pregnant for the first time, trying to decide which Oklahoma hospital to go to for care, and wanting to understand the hospital's policies and processes for providing abortions if pregnancy complications arose.
"What we hadn't anticipated is what we found – the confusion, the contradictory statements, the misinformation," Heisler says."Three of the 34 hospitals said they'd just never provide abortions," for example, even though there are exceptions written into the laws.
"I think one of the most frightening statements, which was at one of the hospitals, the person was trying to be reassuring and she said, 'Oh, well, you know, in the case of a medical emergency, we would try to use the woman's body as an incubator to just try to keep the pregnancy going as long as possible,'" Heisler says.High health stakes, political potency
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