Arizona abortion providers fear for patients' future after court ruling

Wat about the babies already here? Like the ones getting gunned down in school???

Stephanie Stahl Hamilton is the out of state, state rep. she is the one that introduced it, we should start that blame with her

I'm not afraid to face god at some imaginary point in time, But right now while I'm alive, I'll live my life the way I see fit and having another baby isn't in our plans

Will the government funding amount for families be raised. Will they stop being belittled for needing government help?

Emergency rooms refused to treat pregnant women, leaving one to miscarry in a lobby restroom By AMANDA SEITZ, 11 hrs ag WASHINGTON (AP) — One woman miscarried in the restroom lobby of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to admit her. Another woman learned that her fetus had no heartbeat at a Florida hospital, the day after a security guard turned her away from the facility. And in North Carolina, a woman gave birth in a car after an emergency room couldn’t offer an ultrasound. The baby later died.Complaints that pregnant women were turned away from U.S. emergency rooms spiked in 2022 after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, federal documents obtained by The Associated Press reveal. The cases raise alarms about the state of emergency pregnancy care in the U.S., especially in states that enacted strict abortion laws and sparked confusion around the treatment doctors can provide. “It is shocking, it’s absolutely shocking,” said Amelia Huntsberger, an OB/GYN in Oregon. “It is appalling that someone would show up to an emergency room and not receive care -- this is inconceivable.” It’s happened despite federal mandates that the women be treated. Federal law requires emergency rooms to treat or stabilize patients who are in active labor and provide a medical transfer to another hospital if they don’t have the staff or resources to treat them. Medical facilities must comply with the law if they accept Medicare funding. The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday that could weaken those protections. The Biden administration has sued Idaho over its abortion ban, even in medical emergencies, arguing it conflicts with the federal law. No woman should be denied the care she needs,” Jennifer Klein, director of the White House Gender Policy Council, said in a statement. “All patients, including women who are experiencing pregnancy-related emergencies, should have access to emergency medical care required under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act.”

It is a 50 state solution if Roe is enshrine in the National Constitution. An that means voting blue up and down the ballot!

"The code also appears to set the age of consent at 10 years old, proclaiming, “Every person of the age fourteen years and upwards, who shall have carnal knowledge of any female child under the age of ten years, either with or without her consent, shall be adjudged guilty of the crime of rape.”...15 Apr 2024 Fortune Magazine. Arizona lawmakers used only the abortion part of the outdated law and not the age of consent.

This bill must be repealed. These republicans need to understand the evil history behind this 1864 bill. William Claude Jones helped with this bill while he, a grown man was sleeping with and marrying children, young girls 13 - 15 years old. Now we all know what that’s called! These children were forced to have his babies because he helped with this abortion ban bill. Why would any republican support and uphold such a bill, SHAMEFUL! This man put this bill in place to protect himself from messing with children who could not fight back

Any fear for the baby?

What about women who face sexual abuse that could impact our future as a country.

Big government Republicans

PREGNANCY CARE AFTER ROE Pregnant patients have “become radioactive to emergency departments” in states with extreme abortion restrictions, said Sara Rosenbaum, a George Washington University health law and policy professor. They are so scared of a pregnant patient, that the emergency medicine staff won’t even look. They just want these people gone,” Rosenbaum said. Consider what happened to a woman who was nine months pregnant and having contractions when she arrived at the Falls Community Hospital in Marlin, Texas, in July 2022, a week after the Supreme Court’s ruling on abortion. The doctor on duty refused to see her. “The physician came to the triage desk and told the patient that we did not have obstetric services or capabilities,” hospital staff told federal investigators during interviews, according to documents. “The nursing staff informed the physician that we could test her for the presence of amniotic fluid. However, the physician adamantly recommended the patient drive to a Waco hospital.” Investigators with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services concluded Falls Community Hospital broke the law. Reached by phone, an administrator at the hospital declined to comment on the incident. The investigation was one of dozens the AP obtained from a Freedom of Information Act request filed in February 2023 that sought all pregnancy-related EMTALA complaints the previous year. One year after submitting the request, the federal government agreed to release only some complaints and investigative documents filed across just 19 states. The names of patients, doctors and medical staff were redacted from the documents. A manager for Sacred Heart Emergency Center declined to comment. The facility is licensed in Texas as a freestanding emergency room, which means it is not physically connected to a hospital. State law requires those facilities to treat or stabilize patients, a spokeswoman for the Texas Health and Human Services agency said in an email to AP. Sacred Heart Emergency’s website says that it no longer accepts Medicare, a change that was made sometime after the woman miscarried, according to publicly available archives of the center’s website. For Huntsberger, the OB-GYN, EMTALA was one of the few ways she felt protected to treat pregnant patients in Idaho, despite the state’s abortion ban. She left Idaho last year to practice in Oregon because of the ban. The threat of fines or loss of Medicare funding for violating EMTALA is a big deterrent that keeps hospitals from dumping patients, she said. Many couldn’t keep their doors open if they lost Medicare funding. She has been waiting to see how HHS penalizes two hospitals in Missouri and Kansas that HHS announced last year it was investigating after a pregnant woman, who was in preterm labor at 17 weeks, was denied an abortion. “A lot of these situations are not reported, but even the ones that are — like the cases out of the Midwest — they’re investigated but nothing really comes of it,” Huntsberger said. “People are just going to keep providing substandard care or not providing care. The only way that changes is things like this.” NEXT UP FOR EMTALA President Joe Biden and top U.S. health official Xavier Becerra have both publicly vowed vigilance in enforcing the law. Even as states have enacted strict abortion laws, the White House has argued that if hospitals receive Medicare funds they must provide stabilizing care, including abortions. In a statement to THE AP, Becerra called it the “nation’s bedrock law protecting Americans’ right to life- and health-saving emergency medical care.” “And doctors, not politicians, should determine what constitutes emergencies

The people of Arizona like the rest of our great nation, have an opportunity to change this draconian policy forever. Vote 💙🇺🇸

Women are the only ones who can get pregnant, and women are ones who should decide what to do with their own bodies. Whether a woman is pro-choice or pro-life, it's up to her to choose what to do with her own body.

help me!

Pregnancy is Not always black and white!!How do people not get that??

Oh and PS. After this mess we're in caused by Trump not Biden...Who the friggin can afford to have a child??? Homeless everywhere people can't afford to eat pay rent and forget insurance if you drive! Every day I pray for people who have kids to feed.God bless and anybody who can afford to have a child .Vote Blue people or there will soon be No middle class💙💙💙

Why they are abortion..? In medical prablems of mothers

They need to get a petition with 500000. Signatures to have that 1864 law Removed and put on the Voting ballot!!😡😡😡😡Vote Blue!💙💙💙💙

Can drive Michigan Ohio New York, Indiana , Pennsylvania,🎉 Illinois it's your choice is your body nobody has a right to create a law to stop it. It's your body is your choice since they're not going to take care of these women they're not going to pay for their colleges they're not going to pay for them to live in luxury homes don't restrict someone's personal choice. Whether you like it or not 🙋🏻‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️📰📺📽️🤬😕