Bleeding and in pain, a woman endures a harrowing wait for miscarriage care due to Georgia’s restrictive abortion law | CNN
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Had Avery Davis Bell had a miscarriage in Boston, where she lived until 2020, doctors could snap into action. But because she was having a miscarriage in a hospital in Georgia, surgery had to wait.

Summary

Avery Davis Bell faced severe complications with a miscarriage in Georgia, where restrictive abortion laws delayed her necessary medical care.

At 18 weeks pregnant, she was forced to wait for life-saving treatment due to Georgia’s abortion restrictions, which prevent immediate intervention unless a medical emergency escalates.

Bell’s experience highlights the risks imposed by post-Dobbs state laws, with maternal deaths rising faster in states with strict abortion bans.

The law’s impact on Bell’s experience highlights the inhumane consequences of abortion restrictions, which can lead to unnecessary suffering and even death.

  • Apytele@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    I saw a postpartum hemorrhage once in school (this is prepartum obviously, but I remember it cementing to me how vascular the whole process is). They sent us students to fetch the scale they throw the pads on. They know how much each pad weighs dry to subtract from the weight and that’s how they calculate the ongoing blood loss that they don’t catch in the bucket.

    It’s weird to imagine a situation like that where people aren’t running to do all of the things at once to stop the woman from dying just because there happens to be an under 20 week baby in there (unlikely to survive anyway).

    I’m glad I didn’t go into OB (for a variety of reasons, many of which still stand from before all this) but psych isn’t doing so hot these days either. It’s just quieter because the homeless just kinda go missing or are found dead and there’s no family or friends that really care to ask why.