Deranged Anti-Abortion Law Will Keep Hospitals From Saving Dying Women, Doctors Say

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Crucially, the law doesn't provide any guidance for these drugs' use in emergency settings, including misopristol's often essential role in halting life-threatening postpartum blood loss.

"The physician community that I work within is certainly anxious about what the changes to the normal process will be," Stacey Holman, a division director at the Touro hospital's maternal child services, told the Illuminator.

And in using an exceptional situation as the rule — as opposed to using established science and proven healthcare precedents to formulate legislation that impacts the medical system — Pressly, Landry, and everyone else who put this law into effect might put many more women's lives and healths at unnecessary risk.

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Author / Journalist: Maggie Harrison Dupré

Category: Technology

Markets: United States

Topics: Abortion Rx/Medicines Reproductive health Neoscope Health Roe v wade

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Published On: 2024-09-06 @ 20:21:02 (13 hours ago)

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