Anti-abortion laws cause ID hospital to stop delivering babies

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Anonymous wrote:PS: And if your license in one state is still valid, a lot of the requirements are often waived. This is incentive for doctors to leave now, while their active state licenses are still valid and not in jeopardy over any incidents that might come up under these laws.

If they leave now, it is extremely easy to get licensed elsewhere. If they wait, it may become much more difficult.

The forced birth states are going to become wastelands so quickly.

You don’t get it. Laws like this are what people in those states want. And those states are bursting at the seams.

The polls in those states say you are wrong about what the people in those states want.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If I were an OB I wouldn't want to practice in a backwards-аss state like Idaho. Remember republicans are not pro-life. They are anti-women.

Of course they don't want too practice in Idaho. Bite a bullet and good luck to the women of Idaho...you will eventually be on your own to carry and deliver your pregnancies. Maybe vote for modern medical care next time so you don't run all your docs out of the state.

FWIW, there are people who do vote for modern medical care. Alas, they are not the majority in states like ID, UT, and WY, where the Mormon Church holds enormous sway. We have a number of doctor friends in these three states, drawn decades ago by the year-round recreational living. They are at a real cross roads on how to move forward.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:what is the current situation in KS?

Kansas voters overwhelmingly voted in August to protect abortion rights, rejecting a ballot measure in a conservative state with deep ties to the anti-abortion movement that would have allowed the Republican-controlled Legislature to tighten restrictions or ban the procedure outright.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/kansas-voters-resoundingly-defend-their-access-to-abortion

Kansas’ highest court signaled last week that it still considers access to abortion a “fundamental” right under the state constitution, as an attorney for the state argued that a decisive statewide vote last year affirming abortion rights “doesn’t matter.”
https://apnews.com/article/abortion-restrictions-lawsuits-kansas-3eb09cbcdfb18e06aee024e557f9814c

The Kansas Legislature passed its first abortion-related bill since the Aug. 2 Value Them Both vote
https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/politics/government/2023/04/04/kansas-legislature-passes-first-abortion-bill-since-value-them-both/70080119007/

In other words, the GOP in Kansas is perfectly happy to overturn legal elections. Flat out authoritarianism.

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It’s so much uglier than anyone is talking about.


“The feelings of helplessness and the threat of prison time for simply doing their jobs are forcing some providers to leave Idaho. Nearly 50% of maternal health doctors in Idaho are considering leaving the state in the next year, according to a survey conducted by the Idaho Coalition for Safe Reproductive Health Care. An additional 27% responded they are “maybe” considering leaving the state.

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Idaho’s Maternal Mortality Review Committee was established by the Idaho Department of Health in 2019 to track, review and analyze deaths caused by pregnancy-related complications. In 2020, in its first report, the committee found that the state had a maternal death rate that was almost double the national average. Idaho lawmakers declined to renew the committee this session, citing budget issues. The Maternal Mortality Review Committee only cost the state $10,000, writer Jessica Valenti reported.”

Read on to hear how absolutely ridiculous the whole thing is, an absolute clown show of extremism trumping the rights of the majority.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/idaho-abortion-ban-crisis_n_6446c837e4b011a819c2f792

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South Carolina too

Labor, delivery services 'paused' at South Carolina hospital

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:South Carolina too

Labor, delivery services 'paused' at South Carolina hospital

wouldn't surprise me if this kind of thing started to happen in other states, like TX.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:South Carolina too

Labor, delivery services 'paused' at South Carolina hospital

wouldn't surprise me if this kind of thing started to happen in other states, like TX.

It already is and will continue to. But it's not going to be an immediate, flood-like exodus. It'll be ten years down the road and you'll have an article in Texas Monthly detailing how Texas' maternal and neonatal healthcare declined to abysmal levels due to Dobbs and Texas' hardline laws on abortion.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:South Carolina too

Labor, delivery services 'paused' at South Carolina hospital

wouldn't surprise me if this kind of thing started to happen in other states, like TX.

“The Lone Star State leads the nation in the number of maternity ward closures.”
https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/rural-texas-maternity-ward-closures/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:South Carolina too

Labor, delivery services 'paused' at South Carolina hospital

wouldn't surprise me if this kind of thing started to happen in other states, like TX.

“The Lone Star State leads the nation in the number of maternity ward closures.”
https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/rural-texas-maternity-ward-closures/

to be fair, that was in 2022, prior to the arcane abortion laws, however, yea, the problem will get worse, IMO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:South Carolina too

Labor, delivery services 'paused' at South Carolina hospital

wouldn't surprise me if this kind of thing started to happen in other states, like TX.

“The Lone Star State leads the nation in the number of maternity ward closures.”
https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/rural-texas-maternity-ward-closures/

to be fair, that was in 2022, prior to the arcane abortion laws, however, yea, the problem will get worse, IMO.

Texas passed an arcane abortion law in 2021.