Abortion bans threaten all women- a call to action.

Abortion bans are a direct danger to all women who need reproductive care, and a threat to the safety and wellbeing of every American family. Unfortunately the general public just don’t know it, or they don’t believe it yet. There is story that has made it to the headlines and it must not be allowed to wither, be reasoned away, or be excused. We must open the floodgates of information to wash these cruel, ignorant laws away. If you, or someone you know, has experienced a medical delay in treatment, a medical injury, or even death as a result of care denied or delayed because of the complexities of legal compliance with abortion bans you need to speak out. Voters need to know what's happening in our hospitals and they need to know before they go to the ballot box in November.
We need brave Americans to share their stories so we can stop this madness before it harms more people. You may not have the fortitude to approach the 6 o'clock news, or mount a social media blitz campaign, but you can tell your friends, your family, tell your co workers, your book club, or people at your church. If you can’t tell the whole world, tell your world. Show that you, a real and known person has been affected. I understand that what I am asking is scary. I understand that society has told you that you should shut up, that you should be ashamed, and you should be silent. If you could shed your pride, and your fear, and sing out to save one woman what you went through, would you do it? What if you saved thousands? What if you saved countless future generations of women? You could tell society I'm not a victim, I'm a survivor! This is wrong and it shouldn't happen to anybody else!

Right now medical professionals are scared to do their jobs and hospital administrations are instructing providers not to administer needed, necessary care because it might break ambiguous, and broadly worded laws that are intentionally hard to interpret. Patients are suffering, and some are dying, because a minority of people people want to stop abortion. Providers are reluctant to perform anything that might put them at risk of fines, imprisonment or losing their medical license. Hospitals afraid of litigation are implementing policies to deny or delay care. If the law says the person must be in life-threatening danger, doctors are waiting until the patient is literally about to die before they will act. This means medical staff standing by watching women go into shock, into sepsis, and full organ failure. The health outcomes after allowing someone 's safety to degrade to this point can include hysterectomies, organ removal, massive hemorrhaging, amputations, extensive recovery periods, permanent injury, and even death. These completely unnecessary outcomes started with highly treatable conditions.
Well-meaning people want to preserve the sanctity of life of the unborn at any cost. That cost is the safety and lives of innocent American women. Even if you think abortion is wrong, abortion bans effect the care given to all women and even some men. Hospitals are pulling misoprostol, a safe, effective medication, off emergency carts because sometimes it's used in conjunction with other drugs to perform chemical abortions. Originally approved and used to treat ulcers, this drug has a wide variety of helpful medical applications so restricting it’s use will effect male and elderly patients as well. Misoprostol is used in emergency situations to stop hemorrhaging. So a woman who just gave birth to a wanted child might to bleed to death because a medication needed to stop hemorrhaging has been reclassified as a controlled drug. There are women who cannot receive immediate life-saving care, like a routine D&C, when they suffer a miscarriage because the hospital has to make sure they're not breaking the law. Imagine the emotional and physical pain when a baby, that you've longed for, has died inside of you and you have to wait days maybe even weeks until lawyers can determine if your healthcare professional can help you. Imagine you get an infection or suffer other needless complications while you wait rendering you infertile for the rest of your life. It's happening now. Women who wanted their babies are suffering in the name of ‘saving babies’. It is so important to save a potential infant life that living breathing women with children, with families, with jobs contributing to society are going to needlessly suffer, become sick, become infertile, and even die.
Put aside the fact that it has been repeatedly statistically proven that the best way to prevent abortion is through social programs and funding to support young and low-income families and to provide contraception and education, or that medical bans do not stop abortions they just make it more dangerous.
Whether or not you agree with woman's bodily autonomy to chose to become a mother, or not, these bans affect every woman’s access to proper medical care. Anyone with a uterus in danger
States that still have legal abortion are experiencing ripple effects being overburdened with people crossing the borders for care and being threatened with litigation for treating patients from states that have abortion bans. Some providers are leaving states with bans or leaving the profession all together. Many medical professionals feel that bans make it impossible to provide evidence-based care.
Years before Roe vs. Wade was repealed, I personally had to wait 5 hours in writhing in agony for an appendectomy that was postponed until the hospital could prove that I wasn't pregnant. I was a woman of reproductive age, so even though I had just given birth 6 weeks prior and I knew there was no possible way I could be pregnant, they were afraid of liability simply because I was a person with a uterus. This was in a liberal state, and I volunteered to sign an affidavit and waiver. I thought this was outrageous then. I Imagine being a female patient in a hospital today waiting hours, days, months or being denied care all together. If you don't have to imagine, if you know what it's like, tell your story today! Please, tell your story now so our daughters don't have to tell the same story tomorrow.