What is the state of healthcare today?
Twenty states have banned abortions with varying legal, medical and social consequences for mothers, fetuses, hospitals, and medical schools.
Let’s take a look at some of the serious, even life threatening consequences.
Fetuses
One pregnant woman, a medical student, learned that her fetus was diagnosed with multiple health issues, including a deformed brain and one kidney. The prognosis: the fetus is going to die.
Shocked, she got second and third opinions. Sure, no doctor can guarantee that someone will live or die, but we’re not talking about Las Vegas oddsmakers; we’re talking about mothers trying to make medical decisions in a hostile environment. Convinced that the threat was real, the pregnant woman consulted her mother, a gynecologist.
Together they devised a plan to keep the pregnant mother safe and from being criminalized, stripped of her right to practice medicine in Texas and be slapped in prison.
The gynecologist paid cash for her daughter to go to another state and receive medical treatment. Cash was required so that there would be no money trail that legal authorities could trace.
Some time later, the mother delivered another child, a healthy daughter. She also plans to continue studying medicine in another state so she can start her medical career there.
Mothers
Healthcare has become a legal weapon to punish women for seeking medical care. Mothers could involuntarily lose their uterus or their life. Yes, the stakes are that high.
Comprehensive maternity healthcare no longer exists in some states, only what is deemed “legal” by a patchwork of states.
Medical Schools
When certain medical schools see their enrollment plunge, what will happen to their bottom line? At what point could the school’s federal funding be in jeopardy?
Families
Imagine the anxiety that is placed on families that are forced to flee to avoid arrest and imprisonment. Relocating is no picnic under normal circumstances; how much more so under duress.
Comments