The World Republicans Made: Patients Denied Critical Treatment

Here are some consequences of Republicans’ efforts to ban abortion and what our world would look like if Republicans succeed in their plan to ban abortion nationwide:

Associated Press: Abortion laws spark profound changes in other medical care

• Lupus patient denied medication that controls illness because it can also cause miscarriages.

• Doctors whose patients develop pregnancy complications or miscarriages are left to decide whether a woman is “sick enough” to justify an abortion.

• Women are choosing to sterilize their bodies rather than risk getting pregnant by rape and being forced to carry under state’s draconian laws.

Washington Post: Confusion post-Roe spurs delays, denials for some lifesaving pregnancy care

• Women with ectopic pregnancies are being denied the one cure – abortion.

• “As many as 30 percent of pregnancies end in miscarriage,” yet medications that are used to help manage a miscarriage – mifepristone and misoprostol – are being denied over mass confusion and the increasing threats of prosecution.

The New York Times: What New Abortion Bans Mean for the Youngest Patients

• Young girls who are raped are being forced to go across state lines to receive medical care, while some states would force the child to give birth to their rapist’s child.

“These horrific events fall on the shoulders of Republicans in Congress who sought to overturn Roe and refuse to safeguard access to safe, legal abortion,” said DCCC spokesperson Helen Kalla.

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