Bleeding and in pain, a woman endures a harrowing wait for miscarriage care due to Georgia’s restrictive abortion law | CNN
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Had Avery Davis Bell had a miscarriage in Boston, where she lived until 2020, doctors could snap into action. But because she was having a miscarriage in a hospital in Georgia, surgery had to wait.

Summary

Avery Davis Bell faced severe complications with a miscarriage in Georgia, where restrictive abortion laws delayed her necessary medical care.

At 18 weeks pregnant, she was forced to wait for life-saving treatment due to Georgia’s abortion restrictions, which prevent immediate intervention unless a medical emergency escalates.

Bell’s experience highlights the risks imposed by post-Dobbs state laws, with maternal deaths rising faster in states with strict abortion bans.

The law’s impact on Bell’s experience highlights the inhumane consequences of abortion restrictions, which can lead to unnecessary suffering and even death.

  • Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldEnglish
    77·
    4 days ago

    Bell said she does not blame her doctors at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. Rather, she blames the law itself.

    it is on the doctor’s to either take the risk or quit

    people have to step up for change to happen

    • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      3 days ago

      It’s easy to armchair say you’d go to prison for it. A doctor who goes to jail won’t be practicing medicine again, kinda hard to do CME as an inmate…