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appalachiablue

(42,954 posts) Wed Oct 2, 2024, 02:34 PM Oct 2

Blue State Women Not As Safe As You Thought; CA Sues Hospital, Alleged Denial of Emergency Abortion

Blue State Women…You Are Not as Safe as You Thought You Were, Daily Kos, Oct. 1, 2024. Ed.

(Photo: People gather in front of the Georgia State Capital in Atlanta, Fri, June 24, 2022, to protest to protest the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade...)

I didn’t see anyone here post this, so I will.

I live in Blue California, in a fairly blue town. But the monopoly on our health care is owned by Providence, a Catholic hospital. And yes, they turned away someone I know personally, who was miscarrying twins, because the care she needed was against their religion. OMFG.

Now, the good news is that this is illegal in California, so they are getting their asses sued from here to the bakery by a private firm, a women’s organization, and the CA DA. But still, this wonderful woman almost died, and I would be deprived of the best chiropractor on the planet. Not to mention the devastation felt by her friends and family. Not to mention it’s just WRONG.

Providence MUST NOT get away with this, or being in a blue state will be NO protection for any of us. Read all about it here..
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- 'California sues hospital for allegedly denying woman emergency abortion,' CNN, Oct. 1, 2024,

CA Attorney General Rob Bonta has filed a lawsuit against a Catholic hospital in Northern CA for allegedly refusing to provide a woman with emergency abortion care after she had a miscarriage. Anna Nusslock of Eureka was 15 weeks pregnant with twins when her water broke in Feb. Bleeding and in pain, she went to Providence St. Joseph Hospital in Eureka, where doctors confirmed that her pregnancy was no longer viable and that the twins couldn’t survive outside the womb...
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/01/health/california-emergency-abortion-lawsuit/index.html
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And VOTE like our lives depend on it. Because they literally do. Even in California...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/10/1/2274160/-Blue-State-Women-You-Are-Not-as-Safe-as-You-Thought-You-Were
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*Also: 'Terminally Ill, He Wanted Aid-In-Dying. His Catholic Hospital Said No,' KFF Health News, Jan. 29, 2020,
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/when-aid-in-dying-is-legal-but-the-medicine-is-out-of-reach/

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Blue State Women Not As Safe As You Thought; CA Sues Hospital, Alleged Denial of Emergency Abortion (Original Post) appalachiablue Oct 2 OP

I guess we need some Atheist Hospitals. SamKnause Oct 2 #1

Agree, take a look at the article added at the end. Colo man w terminal appalachiablue Oct 2 #5

Very wingnut county. She could have driven elsewhere in the state to get treatment. onecaliberal Oct 2 #2

It was an emergency, the denial is against the law in CA. Time was appalachiablue Oct 2 #3

I'm not saying it's okay. The point is it's not the entire state. onecaliberal Oct 2 #8

How far would she have had to drive to get help? Sometimes in an emergency there is little time. diane in sf Oct 2 #4

Do not go to a Catholic hospital if you have a rupturing ectopic pregnancy or you are miscarrying and might diane in sf Oct 2 #6

IK, it's a horror. Thanks for the post. appalachiablue Oct 2 #7

SamKnause

(13,831 posts)

1. I guess we need some Atheist Hospitals.

Reply to appalachiablue (Original post)

Wed Oct 2, 2024, 02:39 PM

Oct 2

I fucking hate religions.

They are always sticking their damn noses where they don't belong.

They don't belong in health care.

appalachiablue

(42,954 posts)

5. Agree, take a look at the article added at the end. Colo man w terminal

Reply to SamKnause (Reply #1)

Wed Oct 2, 2024, 03:06 PM

Oct 2

cancer was all set for end of life treatment with his doctor when the Catholic run hospital group stepped in, stopped the process and fired the doctor. Tragic.

onecaliberal

(36,033 posts)

2. Very wingnut county. She could have driven elsewhere in the state to get treatment.

Reply to appalachiablue (Original post)

Wed Oct 2, 2024, 02:42 PM

Oct 2

appalachiablue

(42,954 posts)

3. It was an emergency, the denial is against the law in CA. Time was

Reply to onecaliberal (Reply #2)

Wed Oct 2, 2024, 03:02 PM

Oct 2

very likely a big factor. How was she supposed to know all this, and travel to another area to find a different hospital. I had emergency surgery once for a life or death condition, you don't delay..