Non-Pregnant Women and Girls Are Being Denied Lifesaving Medications Due to Fear of Abortion Laws

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Women and girls of childbearing age who aren't even pregnant are being denied lifesaving medications they'd been taking for years because of the risks to a hypothetical fetus. “These are not just rare anecdotes," said the American Medical Association.

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Non-Pregnant Women and Girls Are Being Denied Lifesaving Medications Due to Fear of Abortion Laws
Doctors have stopped prescribing certain medications, and pharmacists have stopped filling them, because the drugs could hurt hypothetical fetuses.
11:47 AM · Oct 2, 2022

https://jezebel.com/non-pregnant-women-and-girls-are-being-denied-lifesavin-1849606994

Rheumatoid arthritis. Osteoporosis. Debilitating cluster headaches. Crohn’s disease. Acne.

These are just a few of the conditions going untreated in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade because the medications used to treat these conditions—some of which women and girls had already been taking for years—can cause pregnancy complications are abortions. Except many of these patients aren’t even pregnant and don’t plan to be any time soon.

A local news outlet in Arizona reported this weekend that 14-year-old girl in Tucson was denied a refill on her prescription for methotrexate, a drug she’d been taking for arthritis and osteoporosis, because a judge recently allowed a Civil War-era abortion ban in the state to take effect, and the drug in question is also used to induce abortions in cases of ectopic pregnancies. The Arizona law, passed in 1864 before it even officially became a state, bans all abortions and threatens two to five years in prison for anyone who would provide them. There are no exceptions for rape and incest—only for life of the mother, an exemption that often forces women to prove they are actually dying in order to get the medical care they need.

Following a tweet about the 14-year-old’s situation, another Tuscon mom weighed in and claimed the same had happened to her daughter.

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Jezebel just reported last week that a woman in New York, who said her cluster headaches were so debilitating that she had contemplated suicide, was denied medication by her doctor because she is of childbearing age and the medication she needs poses risks to a hypothetical fetus. She recorded her conversation with the doctor, because she didn’t think people would believe her.

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[in2herbs]

1. If only the USSC could be sued for practicing medicine without a license. nt

[Bettie]

2. The people pursuing this agenda are just evil

How long until, for example, bartenders find that serving women of childbearing age is too dangerous? Any woman under 55 could possibly be pregnant and they could be prosecuted for child endangerment, since a fertilized egg is now a 'person' in some states.

[Solly Mack]

3. They don't care. Women and girls dying means nothing to them.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. The radicalized Republican party is responsible for this ongoing evil.

We have an Extreme Court that ignores logic, precedent, law, and consequences, in order to impose an extremist ideology on the nation.

Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!

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https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217192221

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[Irish_Dem]

5. Animals receive better care than women.

[gratuitous]

6. When the law forces doctors to commit malpractice

The law is wrong.

[Iris]

7. The woman in New York needs to find another doctor