After the overthrow of Roe v. Wade, many conflicts and medico-medical disasters occurred in the United States. (Image/Dazhi/Associated Press)
In 2022, the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade (Roe v. Wade), which defended women’s right to abortion. This led to a surge in the number of refusals to admit pregnant women to emergency rooms in the United States and many tragedies. room failed to receive treatment.
In February 2023, the Associated Press made a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the federal government for complaints involving pregnant women under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Childbirth Act (EMTALA) of 2022, but found that only some complaints released by the government. of 19 states and the files of the Inquiry, and the personal information of patients and medical staff was deleted. But the document has shown the harm done to women as a result of the reversal of Roe v. Wade, with cold-blooded medical staff avoiding any abortions to avoid prosecution.
The reversal of Roe v. Wade to the regression of human rights in the United States. (Photo/Dazhi/Associated Press)
A week after the Roe v. Wade was overturned in Texas, a nine-month-old pregnant woman was denied access by a doctor on duty at a community hospital on the grounds that “there were no obstetric services in Houston, a large city in the state, a pregnant woman was also suspected” of blood loss due to miscarriage The 911 center notified the hospital after receiving the report, but the hospital refused treatment A city hospital in North Carolina refused to examine a pregnant woman with abdominal pain As a result, the pregnant woman gave birth in a car while was transferred to the hospital, and the fetus unfortunately died.
Sara Rosenbaum, a professor of law and health policy at George Washington University, said that in states with stricter restrictions on abortion, their emergency personnel “see pregnant women as if they are being irradiated” and are very afraid or even want pregnant women to leave the clinic. . This situation occurs not only in the conservative Midwest, but also in Florida.
Huntzberger, an obstetrician-gynecologist who once worked in northwest Idaho, said EMTALA was one of the few ways he could protect patients in Idaho, but he eventually moved to Oregon to practice because of the abortion ban, “ It revealed many cases in Mid Wales are not reported or investigated, and even if they are, there are no consequences.”
Citizen groups believe the federal government needs to do more to protect pregnant women. (Photo/Dazhi/Associated Press)
Conflicts caused by the curtailment of abortion rights occur not only in hospitals, but also in the courts of the treatment manpower or resources”, transferring the patient to another hospital to avoid liability.
Although the federal government is engaged in a legal battle with the state of Idaho on the grounds that the abortion ban violates federal law, and has imposed varying degrees of penalties on hospitals that illegally refuse to treat pregnant women, several citizen groups believes that the federal government needs to do more, for example, ETALA, which has been in force for decades, is no longer able to fully protect patients’ rights and further amendments to the law are needed.
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