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A lifesaving drug used to stop postpartum hemorrhaging will be pulled off emergency response carts once it becomes a ‘controlled dangerous substance.’ Link: https://lailluminator.com/2024/09/03/louisiana-women/

More than 100 pregnant women in medical distress who sought help from emergency rooms were turned away or negligently treated since 2022, an Associated Press analysis of federal hospital investigations has found.

A woman who was denied an abortion at a Kansas hospital after suffering a pregnancy complication that her attorneys say put her at risk of sepsis and even death is suing in a case that already prompted a federal investigation. Link: https://www.medpagetoday.com/obgyn/abortion/111326?xid=nl_mpt_OB/GYN_update_2024-08-01&mh=51907aea4d22470cceb5f843148a8ea0?xid%3Dnl_mpt_OB/GYN_update_2024-08-01&mh=51907aea4d22470cceb5f843148a8ea0&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Automated%20Specialty%20Update%20OBGYN%202024-08-01&utm_term=NL_Spec_OBGYN_Update_Active

My life was in danger. My daughter’s death was inevitable. But the hospitals insisted that emergency intervention was impossible because the care I needed was an abortion.

Two years after Roe was struck down, the conversation has focused on the complications that can come with pregnancy and fertility, helping to drive more support for abortion rights.

The analysis out of Johns Hopkins University is the latest research to find higher infant mortality rates in states with abortion restrictions.

Since Texas’ ban on abortion went into effect, infant deaths in the state increased by nearly 13%, according to a new analysis published on Monday in JAMA Pediatrics. In the rest of the country, infant mortality increased less than 2% over the same period.

Two years after the Dobbs decision overturning the federal right to an abortion, its impact is being felt beyond the matter of whether abortion should be legal or not. There is a widespread view nationwide that pregnant women may be more at risk and reproductive care more difficult to access in states that have passed…

It’s not just the loss of life we mourn. It’s the loss of personhood.

Some physicians reported an uptick in patients seeking contraception and sterilization. Others said they’ve had to send patients out of state for abortion care after complications jeopardized an otherwise wanted pregnancy. And almost all of the doctors who care for pregnant patients said the law has created a legal gray area that looms over their…