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Criminalized Care - How Louisiana’s Abortion Bans Endanger Patients and Clinicians

14 Mar 2024

Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), in order to secure access to abortion in To State and National Medical life-threatening situations even in states Associations: where abortion is banned, and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability ▶ Vigorously advocate for the repeal of Act (HIPAA), in order to protect sensitive abortion bans and restrictions and personal health information di. [...] The research focused governments must ensure access to the full on the questions of whether and how access spectrum of sexual and reproductive health to abortion and other reproductive health care care by removing legal, policy, financial, has changed in the state in the wake of Dobbs, and other barriers and securing adequate and what effects those changes have had on funding for sexual and reprod. [...] This report describes the current legal and This report documents how patients seeking health care context in Louisiana and delineates reproductive health care in Louisiana are how the state’s abortion bans breach the human facing delays or denials of care caused by the rights obligations of the state and the U. [...] And affected their ability to provide evidence-based what’s the best thing for the patient? (1) pregnancy care in circumstances including the management of miscarriages, preterm Clinicians described how the bans have increased premature rupture of membranes (PPROM), the use of medical procedures and treatments that ectopic pregnancies, medical emergencies do not meet the standard of care—heighteni. [...] One OB-GYN who works at a safety net health White women in our state are not feeling that in system described a patient who did not have the same way.” (31) the economic or other means to access care out of state saying: “[She] took the bus to the In addition to noting the magnitude of the emergency room.
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