Hospital – REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ALERTS

05 Jun

After feds say hospitals don’t have to perform emergency abortions, more confusion for patients and doctors

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President Trump’s administration is telling hospitals that they don’t have to perform abortions for patients in emergencies, rolling back the guidance issued under Biden’s administration.

22 Feb

Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.

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"Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion in 2021, ProPublica found in a first-of-its-kind data analysis. The rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they lost their pregnancies in the second trimester, ProPublica found. The surge in this life-threatening condition, caused by infection, was most pronounced for patients whose fetus may still have had a heartbeat when they arrived at the hospital...."

31 Jul

Woman sues Kansas hospital over alleged denial of emergency abortion

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“A Missouri woman is suing a Kansas hospital where she says she was denied an emergency abortion after she went into premature labor at 18 weeks of pregnancy, alleging she was denied emergency health-stabilizing care. The lawsuit comes a year after a government investigation by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services found that hospitals in Missouri and Kansas violated federal law when they refused to provide Mylissa Farmer with abortion care…”

18 Jun

First hospital fined for refusing to provide abortion under new Polish government rules

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"A hospital has been fined for refusing to provide a legal abortion in the first such case since the government recently introduced a requirement for publicly funded medical centres to offer such procedures. Health minister Izabela Leszczyna announced on Monday that the Pabianice Medical Center was fined 550,000 zloty (€126,300). She revealed that audit proceedings regarding two other medical facilities are also in the “final stages” and that they are also likely to be penalised."