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RandySF

(70,156 posts)
Wed Sep 4, 2024, 02:05 AM Sep 4

Harris campaign reacts to Louisiana hospitals pulling life-saving drug from post-delivery access

The campaign of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has waded into Louisiana’s reproductive health debate, criticizing Republican Donald Trump for restrictive policies that states have approved since the U.S. Supreme Court reversed its stance on legal abortion in 2022.

“Let’s be clear: Donald Trump is the reason Louisiana women who are suffering from miscarriages or bleeding out after birth can no longer receive the critical care they would have received before Trump overturned Roe,” Harris-Walz spokeswoman Sarafina Chitika said in a statement to the Illuminator.

“Because of Trump, doctors are scrambling to find solutions to save their patients and are left at the whims of politicians who think they know better,” she added. “Trump is proud of what he’s done. He brags about it. And if he wins, he will threaten to bring the crisis he created for Louisiana women to all 50 states.”

Chitika’s comments came after the Illuminator reported earlier Tuesday that Louisiana hospitals are preparing to remove misoprostol from their obstetric hemorrhage carts now that the medicine has been reclassified as a controlled dangerous substance. The new law goes into effect on Oct. 1, and health care providers are scrambling to come up with new protocols for a medication they have relied upon to save women with life-threatening hemorrhages after delivery.



https://lailluminator.com/2024/09/03/harris-louisiana/

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Harris campaign reacts to Louisiana hospitals pulling life-saving drug from post-delivery access (Original Post) RandySF Sep 4 OP
When I was bleeding out after childbirth I did not know nor care what drugs the doctor gave me. LiberalBrooke Sep 4 #1
The politicians know exactly what they are doing. Irish_Dem Sep 4 #2

LiberalBrooke

(563 posts)
1. When I was bleeding out after childbirth I did not know nor care what drugs the doctor gave me.
Wed Sep 4, 2024, 02:58 AM
Sep 4

Politicians have no concern of the ramifications of their actions on women.

Irish_Dem

(55,825 posts)
2. The politicians know exactly what they are doing.
Wed Sep 4, 2024, 05:46 AM
Sep 4

It is a deliberate attack on women's lives.

The GOP has seen and heard more than enough harrowing stories from
women to understand exactly what they are doing.

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