Republican representative’s ectopic pregnancy clashes with Florida abortion law
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Kat Cammack blames left’s fearmongering after medical staff hesitated to give her drugs needed to end pregnancy

Florida congresswoman blames left-wing fearmongering for the reluctance of hospital staff to give her the drugs she needed to end an ectopic pregnancy that threatened her life

  • AA5B@lemmy.world
    2·
    14 hours ago

    I suppose I don’t have any evidence, but think about it a little …

    1. Do you really think doctors have the extra time to dedicate an afternoon to doing paperwork? What about your experience with medical offices led you to expect all this free time?
    2. Do you really think doctors are deciding a contentious legal issue on their own? Do you understand why hospitals and other corporations even have a legal department?
    • FishFace@lemmy.world
      2·
      13 hours ago
      1. I don’t think reviewing tests which indicate an ectopic pregnancy and writing that a patient has an ectopic pregnancy, that an ectopic pregnancy is a medical emergency, and than an abortion is therefore medically necessary, takes an afternoon. Doctors are busy, and this does take time, so this is a possible - even plausible reason for her to have thought they were dithering, but I also think that medical staff are usually communicative about what’s going on.
      2. Certainly they are not, but I think in the period before the doctors go and talk to the lawyers there is ample room for confusion caused by public perception.