Florida congresswoman blames left-wing fearmongering for the reluctance of hospital staff to give her the drugs she needed to end an ectopic pregnancy that threatened her life

  • FishFace@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Florida law allows abortion in the case of ectopic pregnancy or other situations where the mother’s life is in danger. If the events she’s presented are true it’s hard to think other than that the hospital staff were not clear on the law, and no doubt public discourse (which naturally centres around the strictest laws) has had an effect on that.

    But it’s also possible that the “reluctance” was just a delay during which her doctors were getting the necessary two written opinions that it was necessary.

    • AA5B@lemmy.world
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      13 hours ago

      Bullshit. They spent that time:

      1. Doing the rest of their job, caring for all the other people
      2. Talking to legal and collecting required paperwork to support the legal case that the medical case is legal