The famine in Gaza is imminent and how Louisana banned abortion changed maternal care

The Effects of Louisiana’s Birthlaw Anomaly on Doctors and Patients: Drunken Patients Are Being Ostracized for Living in Communities they’ve Lived in

Doctors afraid of being ostracized from the communities in which they live are beyond going to prison, she said.

Louisiana’s ban allows for abortion in cases of severe fetal anomalies – but only if those anomalies are on a list of conditions published by the state’s health department. A report found that women who are told they can’t get an abortion if their fetus is diagnosed with a serious or fatal condition, are also being told they can’t get an abortion. Doctors said patients who can afford to are traveling out of state for abortions, while those who can’t remain pregnant.

Clapper has said previously that the law is affecting women’s health and that these concerns were manufactured by abortion rights supporters.

The law allows for the treatment of pregnancies with missing eggs and no change has been seen in the care of women who have had abortions due to the ban, Benjamin Clapper told NPR.

According to the report, some doctors contemplated leaving Louisiana. Others warned that a possible exodus of OB-GYNs would exacerbate the state’s existing shortage of obstetricians.

Louisiana already suffers from some of the highest rates of maternal mortality and morbidity in the nation. Black women in the state are more than twice as likely to die as a result of their pregnancy as white women.

Physicians interviewed in the report and those interviewed separately by NPR agreed that women’s health and their lives were being put at risk because of the abortion ban, especially Black and low-income women.

The doctors described instances in which patients with critical illnesses were denied abortions until their lives were at risk.

“And I’m thinking, but what if she doesn’t want to wait that long because she could have a heart attack and die?” The OB- GYN said that. At what point can you act? How many cardiac drugs have to fail?

In one case, an OB-GYN treating a patient with severe heart failure was first required to prescribe multiple cardiac medicines before being allowed to offer an abortion.

People with cancer, patients with heart problems and transplant patients, as well as women who experienced life threatening risks from previous pregnancies, were included.

One of the report’s authors said that they were shocked by how much regular medical practice for pregnant people had been disrupted.

There will be deaths that didn’t have to happen. There’s going to be a lot of serious issues that won’t have to happen, according to Dr. Nicole Freehill, who was interviewed for the report.

In one of the most extreme examples of how pregnancy care has changed, doctors described cases of women who experienced preterm premature rupture of membranes (when the “water breaks” early in pregnancy, before the fetus is viable). Some of these women were forced to undergo Cesarean section surgeries to empty their uterus and avoid infection, instead of receiving an abortion procedure or medication.

“It’s ridiculous,” said Freehill. A C-section is the most unsafe option, no matter if it’s early in a pregnant lady’s career or if it’s a full term baby.

The C-section was done to preserve the appearance of not doing an abortion, explained Dr. Heisler with Physicians for Human Rights.

In the future pregnant patients who have to have a C-section are told that they will not be able to deliver vaginally and could risk a woman’s uterus.

“I think physicians are scared and so what can we do to decrease our risk that the attorney general is going to come after us?” asked an OB-GYN interviewed in the report. One of the things that they could see would be easy.

In what doctors described as another serious deviation from standard medical practice, OB-GYNs in Louisiana are now delaying routine prenatal care until patients reach 12 weeks of pregnancy — the point at which the risk of miscarriage drops significantly.

Doctors told NPR that a history of blood clot can be dangerous for people who delay care into the second trimester and thus have an ectopic pregnancy. Without treatment, some pregnancy-related problems can lead to birth defects, stroke, heart attack, or even death.

The report said that physicians are delaying their treatments due to fear of violating the law in states that don’t allow abortions. Ectopic pregnancies — when the embryo implants outside of the uterus — are never viable, and they can even be deadly.

The patient who came to the hospital bleeding and in pain was a first-time pregnant woman. The patient wanted to have an abortion that involved removing the uterus’ contents in a method called D&C.

Imminent Hunger in Gaza and the “Sustainability of Health Care”, warns U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres

“Institutions don’t want the government coming down on them, accusing us of doing something wrong when what we’re doing is just providing essential health care that people are coming to us for,” she said.

When miscarrying women arrive at ERs in rural areas, those rural hospitals are increasingly transferring patients to urban, specialty hospitals, the report found, to avoid having to treat those patients altogether. The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, or EMTALA, requires emergency medical treatment if you are pregnant.

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Famine is imminent in northern Gaza, and people are suffering “catastrophic levels of hunger,” the world’s leading authority on hunger has warned. A report from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification found that 1 out of 3 children under two years old are acutely malnourished, and some have already died. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres called it “an entirely man-made disaster” and said the report showed the need for an immediate humanitarian cease-fire.

The Palestinians in northern Gaza say they have gone up to two days without a meal and are giving their children and animals food. Others tell her they don’t want the haphazard, chaotic air drops of food from countries like the United States. Most of Gaza’s borders have been sealed since October 7. Hamas-led attacks and the war that ensued. Aid groups believe that Israel is preventing trucks from entering Gaza. Israel says Hamas is to blame for the chaos.

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