Literally the fucking Handmaid’s Tale.
By the way, black women in the US are 3.5x more likely to die in childbirth than white women are. How do you think DOGE and RFK Jr’s research priories will impact that?
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How do you think DOGE and RFK Jr’s research priories will impact that?
At a guess, they'll stop tracking the data?
Do you think this kind of research will get funded?
Notably, the research team found that Black-serving hospitals were slightly more likely than other hospitals to have a “Magnet” designation, which is a recognition bestowed by the American Nurses Credentialing Center to indicate a hospital has demonstrated a high standard of nursing excellence. This indicates that Black patient outcomes remain compromised even at hospitals with strong nursing resources, such as staffing and the work environment.
My guess is that they'll start "researching" on more black women.
3.5x more likely you say? They'd start chanting "knock her up" if not for the fear of white replacement.
This is a new level of evil.
Oh, it gets better:
- The family is financially on the hook for the daughter’s hospital bill.
- Diagnostics have indicated that the fetus is developmentally compromised, and may not even survive the pregnancy.
Why is the family responsible for the cost? The woman is over 18. Shouldn’t her insurance or Medicaid pay for it?
Goddamn anti choice proponents really have no empathy. Subjugation of women and people of color is the point. If it is cruel, they will do it.
At least five women I can find have died so far from being denied reproductive health care - I believe almost all of them women of color. Three in Texas and two in Georgia.
It really is about subjugation. And this specific case does tie into the fact that black women in the US frequently do not receive sufficient medical care:
Monica Simpson, executive director of the organization SisterSong, said the first issue with Smith’s case is that she did not receive proper care when she sought help for her headaches.
Who is paying the bills? The pregnant woman was not a minor and not married? Seems like the hospital will be paying this.
The last line of the article says that the family is responsible for the bills.
If the woman is an adult, the family can simply tell them to go fuck themselves. There is no such thing as debt inheritance with the exception of with spouses because they are "one estate".
Pretty sure you’re marriage is over once your spouse is dead.
I'd absolutely sue the state. They're forcing the mother to be kept on life support against the will of the family, they can foot the bill.
If she had health insurance, the insurance company should sue the state (as well), because they can better afford to. And because this won't be the only time.
In a catastrophic case like this, they wind up spending more than the family, even though it's a smaller percentage of their assets. So they have every incentive, and I'm sure the family would be willing to testify towards their case.
I see that, but why?
It feels wrong - but it looked like Terry Schiavo’s family was responsible for the costs of her care too?
Schiavo’s parents wanted to keep her on life support; her husband didn’t. I wonder if he was expected to pay too.
I imagine hospitals have all kinds of ways of getting people to sign some agreement to be held responsible for all kinds of costs. The entire system is fucked - you don’t know how much you owe until you start getting random bills months later.
In this case, the hospital doesn't have to do anything like that because the anti abortion law itself is coercion enough. If the family does anything that could even potentially contribute to the fetus dying, such as refusing care, they'll be prosecuted for murder. That they can't afford the care is immaterial.
I think in your heart of hearts, you know why.
Another reminder that if you are in the US and have medical care options aside from a Catholic or Christian hospital system, change your primary care to an institution that supports the full spectrum of reproductive health care. Tell the assholes that you are leaving exactly why you are leaving.
Newkirk said the family is also having to deal with the financial responsibility of keeping Smith on life support.
Here, in addition to everything else, have some crushing medical debt.
Welcome to Afghanistan.
Pretty sure Afghanistan is more lenient on abortions.
Well, they could literally execute her and it'd be more humane, in this case.
Yeah Hello Women, as someone living in a state that votes in blue policies, please PLEASE try your best to move to one. Nobody deserves to live in a state where they pay taxes and contribute to society, that makes it ever so fucking clear it does not care about you. I know this isnt a good solution because moving requires money and resources but the faster this type of movement begins the faster we get to phase out these hellish, outdated republican policies for better more progressive ones.
Why do they frame it as something the dead woman’s mother is saying?
When the reality is that specific republicans who passed the bill are the ones forcing a dead mother to be kept on life support with a fetus for 4-5 months.