{"id":16924,"date":"2025-03-23T22:36:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T22:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16924"},"modified":"2025-03-23T22:36:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T22:36:52","slug":"lawmakers-in-at-least-seven-states-seek-expanded-abortion-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16924","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers in at Least Seven States Seek Expanded Abortion Access"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Multiple women, in multiple states with abortion bans, have died after they couldn\u2019t get lifesaving care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They all needed a procedure used to empty the uterus, either dilation and curettage or its second-trimester equivalent. Both are used for abortions, but they are also standard medical care for miscarriages, helping patients avoid complications like hemorrhage and sepsis. But ProPublica found that doctors, facing prison time if they violate state abortion restrictions, are hesitating to provide the procedures.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;women died even in states whose bans allowed abortions to save the \u201clife of the mother.\u201d Doctors told ProPublica that because the laws\u2019 language is often vague and not rooted in real-life medical scenarios, their colleagues are hesitating to act until patients are on the brink of death.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/state-lawmakers-seek-expanded-access-to-abortion-care\">https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/state-lawmakers-seek-expanded-access-to-abortion-care<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Multiple women, in multiple states with abortion bans, have died after they couldn\u2019t get lifesaving care.<\/p>\n<p>They all needed a procedure used to empty the uterus, either dilation and curettage or its second-trimester equivalent. Both are used for abortions, but they are also standard medical care for miscarriages, helping patients avoid complications like hemorrhage and sepsis. But ProPublica found that doctors, facing prison time if they violate state abortion restrictions, are hesitating to provide the procedures.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;women died even in states whose bans allowed abortions to save the \u201clife of the mother.\u201d Doctors told ProPublica that because the laws\u2019 language is often vague and not rooted in real-life medical scenarios, their colleagues are hesitating to act until patients are on the brink of death.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/state-lawmakers-seek-expanded-access-to-abortion-care<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[521,1227],"class_list":["post-16924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-abortion","tag-roe-v-wade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16925,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16924\/revisions\/16925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}