Bans on abortion are a comprehensive war on women’s medical care
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It’s simply impossible to overstate how bad the legal landscape is going to be for those who get pregnant and their doctors in the post-Roe apocalypse:
A sexual assault survivor chooses sterilization so that if she is ever attacked again, she won’t be forced to give birth to a rapist’s baby. An obstetrician delays inducing a miscarriage until a woman with severe pregnancy complications seems “sick enough.” A lupus patient must stop taking medication that controls her illness because it can also cause miscarriages.
Abortion restrictions in a number of states and the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade are having profound repercussions in reproductive medicine as well as in other areas of medical care.
“For physicians and patients alike, this is a frightening and fraught time, with new, unprecedented concerns about data privacy, access to contraception, and even when to begin lifesaving care,’’ said Dr. Jack Resneck, president of the American Medical Association.
Even in medical emergencies, doctors are sometimes declining immediate treatment. In the past week, an Ohio abortion clinic received calls from two women with ectopic pregnancies — when an embryo grows outside the uterus and can’t be saved — who said their doctors wouldn’t treat them. Ectopic pregnancies often become life-threatening emergencies and abortion clinics aren’t set up to treat them.
It’s just one example of “the horrible downstream effects of criminalizing abortion care,” said Dr. Catherine Romanos, who works at the Dayton clinic.
To think there were some hysterics in 2016 who suggested that the power to make Supreme Court nominations was perhaps a mite more important than compliance with email server management best practices!
And that’s in a dozen years of reporting in this, including on the predicted risks to interstate travel and to other care, of criminalization, to those accused of aiding and abetting, etc.— Irin Carmon (@irin) July 17, 2022
Nothing about this is unintentional. The cruelty has always been the point.