The Doctor Will Not See You Now

“In Texas, a woman whose water broke at 18 weeks—far too early for her baby to survive outside the womb—was unable to get an abortion until she became septic. She spent three days in the ICU, and one of her fallopian tubes permanently closed from scarring. In Tennessee, a woman lost four pints of blood delivering her dead fetus in a hospital’s holding area. In Oklahoma, a bleeding woman with a nonviable pregnancy was turned away from three separate hospitals. One said she could wait in the parking lot until her condition became life-threatening.” Sarah Zhang in The Atlantic (Gift Article): ‘That’s Something That You Won’t Recover From as a Doctor.’

+ The broader question on the ballot in November is whether we will recover from the attacks on women’s health care as a nation. How is America leaning on this issue? You can determine the answer by seeing which side is urgently trying to get it off the ballots. WaPo: Abortion foes trying to derail or undermine states’ fall ballot measures. “An unprecedented number of abortion initiatives are on state ballots this November, nearly all seeking to protect reproductive rights, but opponents are trying to defeat them even before the start of voting through legal challenges, administrative maneuvers and, critics say, outright intimidation.”

+ Judge strikes down North Dakota’s ban on abortion.