Today is Tuesday, July 19th, and you're listening to the Morning and Outspans

presented by Betches Media. I'm Sammy Sage, and this episode is brought to you

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We're starting today with the attack on reproductive rights, but I promise it will

get less terrible after this. Extensive reporting from the New York Times on

the reality of health care in the aftermath of the Grove reversal,

paints a dire picture of women whose lives were put at extreme risk due to

doctors refusal to act for fear of being prosecuted. There have now been a

number of situations where women have been miscarrying for numerous days,

continuously bleeding and at risk of hemorrhage and infections.

However, their doctors refuse to perform DNCs, which is the typical treatment for such a

situation, but also happens to be the standard procedure for an abortion. A recent study of

two Dallas hospitals reported on 28 patients whose water broke or had other serious complications

before 22 weeks of gestation, but they were unable to receive medical intervention until the

threat to their lives was more immediate or until fetal cardiac activity stopped. Patients

waited nine days for treatment on average, and 57% of patients ended up with serious infections,

bleeding, or sepsis. In one case, a woman in Houston had miscarried and there was no cardiac

activity, but Walgreens refused to fill her prescription for an abortion medication

until they could receive extra approval from their corporate office. And then once they agreed

to fill the prescription, she had to tell the pharmacist that the medication wasn't for an abortion.

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