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Florida’s 6-week abortion ban takes effect as doctors worry women will lose access to health care

Oh, the fetal incubators will suffer and die? Well, that's just a wonderful side effect! - GOP voters

"Florida’s ban on most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, before many women even know they are pregnant, went into effect Wednesday, and some doctors are concerned that women in the state will no longer have access to needed health care...The rules are affecting not just women who want therapeutic abortions, meaning procedures to terminate viable pregnancies because of personal choice, but also nonviable pregnancies for women who want to have babies.

“We’re coming in between them and their doctors and preventing them from getting care until it’s literally saving their lives, sometimes at the expense of their fertility,” Roberts said...prevented from performing an abortion on a nonviable pregnancy that they know may become deadly — such as when the fetus is missing organs or implanted outside the uterus — until it actually becomes deadly...

“We’re being told that we have to wait until the mother is septic to be able to intervene,” Roberts said...Besides the physical danger, there’s also the psychological trauma of having to carry a fetus that the mother knows will never be a healthy baby..."

by Anonymousreply 4May 1, 2024 9:29 PM

That's what happens when you vote for Republicans. I wonder if that will change in November.

by Anonymousreply 1May 1, 2024 7:10 PM

I'm sure the hags who threw fits over potentially having to show a COVID vaccine card to go somewhere around a deadly pandemic will be a-ok with restrictions on pregnant women....as long as it only happens to the poors and not to them or their precious Brayleighs.

by Anonymousreply 2May 1, 2024 7:23 PM

I can get rid of it for you with tweezers and some iodine.

by Anonymousreply 3May 1, 2024 7:44 PM

Male Republicans hate women.

by Anonymousreply 4May 1, 2024 9:29 PM
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