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Emily Waldorf was 17 weeks pregnant when a doctor told her, “Your body is about to miscarry.”
Her cervix was dilated, it had opened too soon, and she was going to lose the daughter whose nursery she was just getting ready to decorate.
This news was both devastating and dangerous. Three doctors gathered in the hospital room and told Waldorf and her husband that the longer her cervix remained open and her uterus exposed to bacteria, the higher her risk of developing a life-threatening infection. The standard of care, they explained, would be to quickly empty her womb.
But they couldn’t do that, one doctor said apologetically, sighing deeply. Doing so would run afoul of the Arkansas state abortion ban. Legally, they said they could not intervene until she went into labor on her own or showed signs of a dangerous infection, or until the fetal heartbeat ended. Waldorf struggled to understand what the doctors were saying as waves of grief hit her.
When Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, our newsroom devoted a team of reporters to investigate the consequences. In the years since, ProPublica has become a leading source for Americans trying to understand the impact of abortion bans and to see who is being harmed when laws collide with medical reality. This was true for Waldorf, too. Scrolling through social media on her third night in the hospital, a headline caught her eye: “Abortion Bans Have Delayed Emergency Medical Care. In Georgia, Experts Say This Mother’s Death Was Preventable.” Our newsroom had just published an investigation on the death of Amber Thurman, a 28-year-old medical assistant who died of infection after doctors delayed emptying her uterus. Thurman left behind a 6-year-old son.
“Oh my god, it isn’t just me,” Waldorf thought. “But she died.”
Waldorf advocated for herself, fiercely. She spoke with the CEO of the hospital. She called the governor’s office. She got a lawyer. She ultimately insisted on leaving the state, riding in an ambulance to The University of Kansas Health System, where medical care was not governed by a state abortion ban. She survived. And she shared her story with ProPublica. I encourage you to read it.
The hospital told ProPublica it could not comment on Waldorf’s experience. The doctors also didn’t comment about her case.
Texas clarified how its abortion ban should be applied in medical emergencies. But because abortion law is handled state by state, and there is no single federal standard requiring states to adopt that clarification, Arkansas has no obligation to follow Texas’ lead — or even to treat Texas’ changes as guidance. Arkansas calls itself the “most pro-life state in America.” Since its ban took effect, not one person living there has been granted a medically necessary abortion, according to the state’s public data.
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WOMEN BEING DENIED EMERGENCY ABORTION CARE THAT THREATENS
THEIR LIVES? 12 YEAR OLD BEING FORCED TO CARRY A PREGNANCY
AFTER RAPE OR INCEST?
BRAIN DEAD OLD WHITE MEN DRAFTED THESE PUNITIVE BILLS &
IN THEIR IGNORANCE, IGNORED FACTS & REALITY!
DEAD BEAT DON doesn't pay his bills....he owes cities for SECURITY...that limits the venues willing to host his rallies.
DEAD BEAT DON OWES THESE CITIES:
EL PASO TEXAS
LEBANON OHIO
GREEN BAY WISCONSIN
MINNEAPOLIS MINNESOTA
SPOKANE WASHINGTON
BILLINGS MONTANA
MESA ARIZONA
TUSCON ARIZONA
ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO
EAU CLAIRE WISCONSIN
GREEN BAY WISCONSIN
ERIE PENNSYLVIA
BURLINGTON
Donald Trump Stills Owes These Cities' Taxpayers for His Rallies
https://youtu.be/ZS_SIJaCtuc?si=fkjn9RPmeTKbNSeU
Let's work to STOP THE HATE & TARGETING IMMIGRANTS with LIES. The same has been done to MUSLIMS.
HAITIAN Migrants are re-building a city. They are legally in this country & pay their taxes.
The article below explains why they're being targeted.
DEVIN NUNES, now Truth Social clown, the King of Lawsuits, even suing a COW, bragged about a
family farm, except it was no longer in CALIFORNIA. It had moved to IOWA & hired undocumented
immigrants....YES! He sued ESQUIRE!
ESQUIRE:
Devin Nunes’s Family Farm Is Hiding a Politically Explosive Secret
Rep. Devin Nunes is head of the House Intelligence Committee and one of President Trump’s biggest defenders. For years, he’s spun himself as a straight talker whose no-BS values are rooted in his family’s California dairy farm. So why did his parents and brother cover their tracks after quietly moving the farm to Iowa? Are they hiding something politically explosive? On the ground in Iowa, Esquire searched for the truth—and discovered a lot of paranoia and hypocrisy.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a23471864/devin-nunes-family-farm-iowa-california/
Why the Far Right Lies about Immigrants
https://juancole.com/2024/09/right-about-immigrants.html
Kaitlyn Joshua addresses the crowd at the 2024 DNC.Chip Somodevilla/Getty
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On the first night of the Democratic National Convention, three women shared their personal stories of needing an abortion or miscarriage management. One was Kaitlyn Joshua, who was denied this care in Louisiana shortly after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
When Joshua began to miscarry around 11 weeks into her pregnancy, the bleeding was profuse and the pain worse than birth with her first child. Over two days, two emergency rooms turned her away. When she arrived at the second ER, her jeans were soaked in blood and a security guard put her in a wheelchair. Again, doctors wouldn’t confirm her miscarriage, provide a dilation and curettage procedure to remove the fetus, medication to hasten the miscarriage, or even medicine to alleviate the pain. “I was in pain, bleeding so much my husband feared for my life,” she said on stage in Chicago.
“It took me weeks to pass my pregnancy at home,” she said Tuesday, at a training session for how Democrats should message the abortion issue in their communities. “I was terrified. And the experience made me see how black women are dying at alarming rates in our country.”
Joshua’s miscarriage changed her life in one way she did not expect—she became a campaign surrogate for the Democratic presidential ticket, first for President Joe Biden and now for Vice President Kamala Harris. In June, she appeared in a campaign ad for the Biden campaign. She plans to spend the fall campaigning across the country for Harris.
After the panel on Tuesday, I caught up with Joshua. We discussed what it was like to suddenly become a reproductive rights advocate, to retell the story of her miscarriage over and over, and what it took to have another child under Louisiana’s strict abortion ban.
MJ: How did you decide to take your experience with a miscarriage under an abortion ban and use that to become an advocate for reproductive rights?
KJ: I actually had no intention [of speaking out]. I have a twin sister who’s a doctor now, and at the time, she had called me from med school, and she was like, “Look, the Louisiana Department of Health is holding a hearing.” And mind you, this was two months after my miscarriage, so I was still mad as hell, right? Still angry at the experience, and still very jaded on the whole thing. And I told her, “No.” And she said, “If you don’t say anything, they’re not going to know what is happening in these emergency rooms as a result of our near total abortion ban in Louisiana.” So I said, “Fine.”
I definitely think storytelling is going to move the needle in this election.
And I’m so glad that I did, because as soon as I shared my story, not only did the Louisiana Department of Health take that feedback and try and do some work the next legislative session, but an NPR article picked me up immediately, and then before I knew it, CBS 60 Minutes picked it up, and then I’m getting calls from the White House, and now I’m touring with Kamala Harris. And so I’m glad I did it, because I feel like it’s such important work. I definitely think storytelling is going to move the needle in this election. And without those stories and women speaking out, we wouldn’t be where we are right now.
MJ: Are you able to see the impact that your story is having on people?
KJ: Someone who ran into me in the hotel was like, “Oh my god, I saw you on the stage last night. I need you to know I’m here with all of these wealthy white people, and they are now voting Democrat and now completely switched over from Republican because of the abortion issue.” I don’t think we would be as far in the conversation around reproductive freedom or reproductive justice if we weren’t storytelling and people understanding the intersectionalities of maternal health care and abortion care.
Also adding another component, in my opinion, as a woman of color, being able to highlight the issue around black maternal health in this country is really important to me, and so I feel like I also can carry the water on that too.
MJ: What is it like to tell your story over and over, and so publicly?
KJ: While I’m telling the story, it’s like I’m almost reliving it every single time. I had done a great job, before I signed my name to the campaign, of just burying that story in the back of my mind and moving forward. That sounds so bad, but I just didn’t want to constantly relive the trauma. And so I did the work with my therapist. And now, sharing the story in the moment, while difficult, afterwards the way that people receive it and the way that they comfort you, it’s very therapeutic, actually. And so in a lot of ways, even though it doesn’t get easier to tell the story, when I see the impact that it has, that makes it a little bit easier.”
MJ: Given what you went through and the fact that the law hasn’t changed in Louisiana, the strict abortion ban is still in place, do you feel comfortable trying to have another baby?
KJ: I had another baby. So my son is 10 months old. He’ll be 11 months in two days.
MJ: Congratulations!
KJ: My husband and I made the crazy decision to travel [to New Orleans] from our house [in Baton Rouge] for me to go to my appointments and see a physician that believed in abortion care, should I ever need it, or should my life be in danger. I understand my privilege in that. Not everybody can drive an hour and a half away and then drive out an hour and a half back, take off the work, do all the things to be able to get to a provider that fully practices in their full capacity, but we were blessed to be able to do it. And that was the only way I was going to do it, because I was not going back to the hospitals that I went to.