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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDoctors Agreed Her Baby Would Die 3 Months Before She Was Forced To Give Birth
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/deborah-dorbert-florida-abortion-amendment-4-1235141637/
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DEBORAH DORBERT WAS five months pregnant in November 2022 when learned that her baby was not going to live. Late in the second trimester of her pregnancy, a scan revealed that his kidneys and lungs were failing to develop; a specialist diagnosed the baby with Potter syndrome, a condition that occurs when there is a lack of amniotic fluid in the uterus. He would not survive more than a few hours past birth, Deborah and her husband, Lee, were told.
Her doctor advised that the safest option for Deborah would be to induce, and end the pregnancy as soon as possible. But because of restrictions that had taken effect in Florida that summer, a week after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, that option was not available to her. Instead, Deborah was forced to carry her pregnancy to term: three and half more months, living with the knowledge that her child was going to die.
Deborah and Lee are sharing their story in television ads supporting Amendment 4, a Florida ballot initiative that would enshrine the right to abortion in the state, including in cases like hers.
Here, in their own words, are Deborah and Lee Dorberts accounts of the devastating diagnosis, the excruciating months that followed, her traumatic birth, their sons short life, and the months of grief that have followed his death.
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Doctors Agreed Her Baby Would Die 3 Months Before She Was Forced To Give Birth (Original Post)
Nevilledog
4 hrs ago
OP
GOP anti-female healthcare laws cruel & unusual punishment for the crime of being born with a uterus.
Attilatheblond
4 hrs ago
#1
Yep. Has ANYBODY heard of any man, bleeding out internally or on the floor, being sent to parking-lot to bleed more
Attilatheblond
4 hrs ago
#4
If legislators and governors can make medical decisions, they should be able to be sued for malpractice
Freethinker65
4 hrs ago
#3
Attilatheblond
(4,055 posts)1. GOP anti-female healthcare laws cruel & unusual punishment for the crime of being born with a uterus.
Time to start suing these assholes for practicing medicine without license.
Bayard
(23,949 posts)2. Absolutely
Its also gender discrimination.
Attilatheblond
(4,055 posts)4. Yep. Has ANYBODY heard of any man, bleeding out internally or on the floor, being sent to parking-lot to bleed more
before a doctor would do anything? No? Well then, pretty good evidence that the 'pro-life' faction of the radical right is anything but pro-life. More accurately, they are pro-punishing women for the imagined sin of eating an apple.
Freethinker65
(10,945 posts)3. If legislators and governors can make medical decisions, they should be able to be sued for malpractice
The patient obviously did NOT receive best available care because of the legislature and governor.
Scrivener7
(52,278 posts)5. Pure evil at work there.
Tetrachloride
(8,379 posts)6. so, .... i sense missing information after the prognosis
Solly Mack
(92,252 posts)7. The more of these stories of oppression I read the angrier I get.
And I have always been angry over the treatment of women in America.
Always.
CaptainTruth
(7,149 posts)8. This was torture, period.
It's sick & disgusting.
DFW
(56,279 posts)9. Republicans: the Pro-Death party.
The idea of Republicans calling themselves Pro-life is equivalent to Trump calling himself malnourished.