Anti-abortion laws cause ID hospital to stop delivering babies

[Anonymous]

Ironically, the prolifers have pushed out obgyns and pediatricians from hospitals due to the restrictive abortion laws, and the hospital will no longer deliver babies.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/20/idaho-bonner-hospital-baby-delivery-abortion-ban

An Idaho hospital has planned to stop delivering babies, with the medical center’s managers citing increasing criminalization of physicians and the inability to retain pediatricians as major reasons.

Bonner General Health, the only hospital in Sandpoint, Idaho, announced on Friday that it would no longer provide labor, delivery and a host of other obstetrical services.

The more than 9,000 residents of Sandpoint are now forced to drive 46 miles for the nearest labor and delivery care, the Idaho Statesman reported.

Will we see more such cases all over these anti-abortion states?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ironically, the prolifers have pushed out obgyns and pediatricians from hospitals due to the restrictive abortion laws, and the hospital will no longer deliver babies.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/20/idaho-bonner-hospital-baby-delivery-abortion-ban

An Idaho hospital has planned to stop delivering babies, with the medical center’s managers citing increasing criminalization of physicians and the inability to retain pediatricians as major reasons.

Bonner General Health, the only hospital in Sandpoint, Idaho, announced on Friday that it would no longer provide labor, delivery and a host of other obstetrical services.

The more than 9,000 residents of Sandpoint are now forced to drive 46 miles for the nearest labor and delivery care, the Idaho Statesman reported.

Will we see more such cases all over these anti-abortion states?

Yes. Obstetrics was always a high insurance field in which to practice - the stakes are so high and our society so litigious - but who is going to want to practice in the backward states now? It’ll probably start in the margins in the rural areas at first and then bleed into the cities.

Losing pediatricians is going to hollow out wherever kids live and leave the remaining kids extremely vulnerable. What a moronic mess the GOP has made for themselves.

[Anonymous]

I don't remember if I read it here or elsewhere, but Mississippi has a number of hospital systems that are closing delivery departments. It does not look good the way things are going.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't remember if I read it here or elsewhere, but Mississippi has a number of hospital systems that are closing delivery departments. It does not look good the way things are going.

It's God's will!!!>>>!!!!

[Anonymous]

Good. Pro-lifers, be careful what you wish for. I do not blame these medical professionals for their decision.

[Anonymous]

I applaud the hospital's decision.

[Anonymous]

So if a woman shows up in the emergency room with a baby crowning, will she just get turned away?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So if a woman shows up in the emergency room with a baby crowning, will she just get turned away?

they may help her, but there won't be an obgyn on staff, and if the baby has issues, there won't be neonatal services to help. I predict they will see an decrease in maternal and infant mortality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So if a woman shows up in the emergency room with a baby crowning, will she just get turned away?

No, but she may have to rely on a radiologist or general surgeon to deliver her baby.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So if a woman shows up in the emergency room with a baby crowning, will she just get turned away?

they may help her, but there won't be an obgyn on staff, and if the baby has issues, there won't be neonatal services to help. I predict they will see an decrease in maternal and infant mortality.

Wit? Why a decrease in mortality. Seems like we are on for a big increase.

[Anonymous]

Back in 1774, most women relived it babies at home and a huge percent died. Alito’s originalist reading of the constitution would hold that women aren’t entitled to a doctor or hospital to give girth. If at ho,e worth an untrained midwife as the 1776 stand, it’s all women are entitled to now.

;s

[Anonymous]

Fwiw, 46 miles isn't that far, in the West.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fwiw, 46 miles isn't that far, in the West.

It’s too far if you’re bleeding out.

[Anonymous]

Fwiw, 46 miles isn't that far, in the West.

Yeah, when a baby comes fast it might as well be 1000 miles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fwiw, 46 miles isn't that far, in the West.

It’s too far if you’re bleeding out.

+1

Women who want to have children will have to go to cities with OBs and stay in a hotel for the last few weeks of their pregnancy as they do in some Alaskan cities. Only here there’s no reason why it should happen - just Republicans pooping in their own nest.