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Certain drugs and procedures (like D&Cs) are kinda "dual use" and are banned or impractically difficult to obtain in several states, now. We've had to use those
by yamtaddle 3y ago
Certain drugs and procedures (like D&Cs) are kinda "dual use" and are banned or impractically difficult to obtain in several states, now. We've had to use those before, for non-abortions, and have also had what they call an "ectopic pregnancy" which is quite dangerous and will not result in a living baby but is now really hard to get treated in some states, such that it's easier and safer to travel to another (I think ours is still OK for that one, though).
Some of that stuff was already troublesome to access because providers were wary of running into existing abortion regulations (Roe, especially after modification by Casey, did not absolutely guarantee abortion rights through all of pregnancy—not even close) and a lot of hospitals have religious affiliations and are allowed to limit care based on the beliefs of those religions (despite potentially being the only option in a large area because of guarantees & licenses from the government, which, you know, makes it entirely insane that they're allowed to do that). We ran into some of that, it really sucked, and it'd be a ton worse now, and (I'm pretty sure) we're not even in the worst state as far as that goes.
[EDIT] But, notably, despite not having things as bad as a couple other states, the state's solidly "red", so at risk of shifting to an even more restrictive stance at any time now that we don't even have the very-limited protections of Roe.