Waldorf didn’t oppose abortion, but she had never considered that the law could apply to her. Her father was a doctor. This was the hospital where she had worked for the past six years. The OB-GYN team treating her had delivered her daughter, and some of them lived blocks from her parents. She was a highly educated 38-year-old woman with connections to the governor. As she lay in a hospital bed, worried that infection could enter her uterus at any moment, she finally understood the ban now applied to anyone losing a baby.

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ms spock said:

didn’t oppose abortion, but she had never considered that the law could apply to her

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allegorical

In Texas, the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy-loss hospitalisations has risen more than 50% since that state’s post-Dobbs abortion bans came into effect. There have been dozens more pregnancy-related deaths in its hospitals compared with pre-Dobbs years. The ban has been associated with increases in neonatal deaths, especially those involving congenital abnormalities. Miscarriage care has worsened. Bodies have been left hurt, scarred and permanently mutilated by the denial of medical care obliged by politically legislating the anti-abortion agenda. A 2024 study estimated that in the 14 US states with total abortion bans, there were more than 64,000 rape pregnancies after Dobbs.

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In Texas, the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy-loss hospitalisations has risen more than 50% since that state’s post-Dobbs abortion bans came into effect. There have been dozens more pregnancy-related deaths in its hospitals compared with pre-Dobbs years. The ban has been associated with increases in neonatal deaths, especially those involving congenital abnormalities. Miscarriage care has worsened. Bodies have been left hurt, scarred and permanently mutilated by the denial of medical care obliged by politically legislating the anti-abortion agenda. A 2024 study estimated that in the 14 US states with total abortion bans, there were more than 64,000 rape pregnancies after Dobbs.

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I wonder in part if its also more money for hospitals as birthing a child costs money, tens of thousands isn’t it in the USA

Cymek said:

ms spock said:

In Texas, the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy-loss hospitalisations has risen more than 50% since that state’s post-Dobbs abortion bans came into effect. There have been dozens more pregnancy-related deaths in its hospitals compared with pre-Dobbs years. The ban has been associated with increases in neonatal deaths, especially those involving congenital abnormalities. Miscarriage care has worsened. Bodies have been left hurt, scarred and permanently mutilated by the denial of medical care obliged by politically legislating the anti-abortion agenda. A 2024 study estimated that in the 14 US states with total abortion bans, there were more than 64,000 rape pregnancies after Dobbs.

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I wonder in part if its also more money for hospitals as birthing a child costs money, tens of thousands isn’t it in the USA

That is true. It costs a lot of money to have a child in the USA.

I think it is more to do with control.

1 in 4 pregnancies end in miscarriages before Roe vs Wade these women often died. They are dying again.

White maternal deaths rose 95% when abortion care bans came in to effect iin Texas.

Maternal mortality rose 56% in Texas in the first full year of the state’s abortion ban; up 95% among White women

Now that maternal morbidity committees have been disbanded which means shortly we won’t know maternal death rates.

Texan abortion ban almost killed her and left her unable to have children.

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All the misinformation used in America about abortion had been trickling in to Australia.

Less than 1% of abortions take place in the third trimester – here’s why people get them

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While most abortions take place in the first trimester of pregnancy, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that less than 1% of abortions take place after 21 weeks of pregnancy. Public support for abortion after 24 weeks of pregnancy is notably low, and pundits have made wild claims about people who get third-trimester abortions, such as that women seek abortions up until the moment of a live birth.

A stillbirth and Facebook post expressing her grief landed her in prison for over 2 years. Experts say it’s part of a pattern

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Two days later, Rousseau was arrested and charged with felony manslaughter before she was convicted in Nevada, where abortion is legal, under what legal experts say is a vague and broadly written statute that makes it a crime for any woman to take drugs with the intent to terminate a pregnancy. She was also charged with concealing birth, a misdemeanor, but was not convicted on that charge.

Rousseau’s case fits into an emerging pattern where women are swept up in criminalization – even in states where abortion is legal – by prosecutors reaching for antiquated statutes or laws that were never intended to punish pregnant women and those experiencing pregnancy loss or birth, including abuse of a corpse, child neglect or even homicide, according to several abortion law experts CNN spoke with.

ms spock said:

A stillbirth and Facebook post expressing her grief landed her in prison for over 2 years. Experts say it’s part of a pattern

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Two days later, Rousseau was arrested and charged with felony manslaughter before she was convicted in Nevada, where abortion is legal, under what legal experts say is a vague and broadly written statute that makes it a crime for any woman to take drugs with the intent to terminate a pregnancy. She was also charged with concealing birth, a misdemeanor, but was not convicted on that charge.

Rousseau’s case fits into an emerging pattern where women are swept up in criminalization – even in states where abortion is legal – by prosecutors reaching for antiquated statutes or laws that were never intended to punish pregnant women and those experiencing pregnancy loss or birth, including abuse of a corpse, child neglect or even homicide, according to several abortion law experts CNN spoke with.

Arresting her is a crime.

Tau.Neutrino said:

ms spock said:

A stillbirth and Facebook post expressing her grief landed her in prison for over 2 years. Experts say it’s part of a pattern

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Two days later, Rousseau was arrested and charged with felony manslaughter before she was convicted in Nevada, where abortion is legal, under what legal experts say is a vague and broadly written statute that makes it a crime for any woman to take drugs with the intent to terminate a pregnancy. She was also charged with concealing birth, a misdemeanor, but was not convicted on that charge.

Rousseau’s case fits into an emerging pattern where women are swept up in criminalization – even in states where abortion is legal – by prosecutors reaching for antiquated statutes or laws that were never intended to punish pregnant women and those experiencing pregnancy loss or birth, including abuse of a corpse, child neglect or even homicide, according to several abortion law experts CNN spoke with.

Arresting her is a crime.

100! Particularly given that 40% of pregnancies end in miscarriages.

1% of abortions occur after 21 weeks in America and they are the most heart breaking moments in the world. That is if one of the foetuses have died, won’t survive birth, it is missing a brain etc or to save the life of the mother.

I notice that One Notion and other right wingers have been starting to use anti choice rhetoric from America.

USA: Flock Safety allegedly used to track Texas woman after abortion, raising reproductive rights concerns

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