The state has one of the country’s highest maternal mortality rates. Now, three hospitals plan to stop delivering babies, putting some pregnant women at even higher risk.
It’s the republican evangelical/christian way. Defund anything that actually helps people and line the pockets of the lobbyists. It says to do this right in the Bible of course
“Nobody wants women and children to do poorly, but you also can’t lose money year over year on a service line,” said Dr. John Waits, CEO of the nonprofit Cahaba Medical Care, which runs medical clinics that take patients regardless of their ability to pay
Will get ever change how they vote? Will they ever realize that voting for the same idiots is how they got here? How many of them have to personally lose a baby or a wife before even reconsidering?
The whole thing makes me sick.
As far as those inbred rubes are concerned it will just be Hilary Clinton’s fault, or maybe hunter Bidens laptop that’s causing the wards to close.
Fuck everyone in this thread cheering this on. This is NOT the schadenfreude you think it is.
Read the article you dipshits. This is not impacting the wealthy, or white areas, it’s impacting the poor black ones.
All you lazy armchair activists are cheering on the actions that are guaranteed to raise the black infant mortality rate in Alabama even higher than it already is.
Almost everyone in this thread is talking about how this is a bad thing and why it happened.
When I came to the thread I just spammed my point across all the top comments, which were all cheering it on.
So you’re just seeing my comments, and maybe others who came in after and also read the article.
so you spammed the same shit to everyone with bad takes and you thought it was so important to post a standalone too? jesus dude, relax
there’s only 26 comments (8 parents) a day later ffs, it’s not like there was an outpouring of support the way your comment implies
They’ll still be delivering babies, just doing it in the ER without specialists. You think maternal mortality is high now, they’re going for a New High Score!
Which is frankly terrifying. ER docs are only required to do 10 deliveries during residency, which are often as glorified observers. I did nearly 100 deliveries in my rural unopposed FM residency and that was no where near enough to feel comfortable making it a part of my practice.
So, yes, they are going to set records.
Rather be dead than be born in Alabama to Alabaman parents. This is a mercy.
Lived near the AL border for years. That’s what’s fucking wrong with me. FL is absolute garbage but it doesn’t hold a candle to the Habsburg Hell that is AL.
I meant what I said. My opinion will change when Alabama stops fucking their cousins and starts joining us in the 21st century.
Pass stupid laws win stupid prizes.
It seems that this is the ‘find out’ part of 'F**CK around and find out for the GOP.
Not that they care of course, the poor are not people, and not GOP*
*Sarcasm, but also, GOP members tend to considers themselves ‘wealthy’, reality be dammed.