'Heartbreaking' stories go untold, doctors say, as employers 'muzzle' them in wake of abortion bans

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Jill Filipovic
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A predictable outcome of these archaic abortion bans is that health workers are muzzled from speaking out. And the right's ideal laws go even further, and would criminalize telling people how to get safe abortions. It's a full-on assault on free speech.

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'Heartbreaking' stories go untold, doctors say, as employers 'muzzle' them in wake of abortion...
After the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, an obstetrician who works at a hospital in the Northeast thought she could make a difference by publicly describing what she was seeing, by...
11:58 AM · Oct 14, 2022

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/12/health/abortion-doctors-talking/index.html


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After the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, an obstetrician who works at a hospital in the Northeast thought she could make a difference by publicly describing what she was seeing, by telling the stories of the patients she saw suffering in the aftermath of the court’s historic court ruling.

So when a reporter from The New York Times reached out, she was grateful for the opportunity to discuss the plight of patients traveling to her hospital from states that had abortion restrictions.

The obstetrician passed along the reporter’s inquiry to her hospital’s public relations office, asking for permission to do the interview, noting that the reporter approached her because she holds a leadership position on a state government maternal mortality committee.

A hospital PR official replied that “without any notable exceptions, we are not participating in interviews at this time” and asked the doctor to send along the reporter’s questions and her proposed answers.

The doctor sent along the questions and answers and received a resounding “no” from the PR official: “We ask that you do not comment to the NY Times at this time.”

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[I_UndergroundPanther]

1. Fascists

Fuck them all and the spineless hospital ceos and administrations.

[Bettie]

2. They want to bestow "personhood" on a fertilized egg

while removing it from the women who carry the egg/zygote/embryo/fetus.