Fake news.
“The whole idea is not necessarily to find someone to blame, but how do we improve our systems, and fight to make sure that we have the resources so that women are not in danger,” former committee member and Maternal Fetal Physician Specialist, Dr. Stacy Seyb said. “We won’t have the ability to look at cases from that sort of a multidisciplinary way anymore, and what you end up with [now] is some raw numbers.”
The number of maternal deaths will still be tracked, according to IDHW Women and Infant Health Program Manager Jennifer Liposhak.
Some background:
Thank you! I am definitely going to listen to this. I was reading the prolonged like… what does Ukraine have to do with this? It was very interesting but confused why you shared.
So to anyone else the theme of the episode is about when to leave. And the first shared story is this:
Amelia Huntsberger has a story she tells about what it’s like to work at a small, rural hospital. She’s an OB-GYN in Northern Idaho, in a place called Sandpoint. And early on, she got called down to the emergency room to examine a woman.
If you have never listened to this American life, it is an excellent podcast. I look forward to listening!
You’re welcome! That episode is well worth listening to to get the real, on the ground implications of overturning Roe v Wade. When you finish listening to it:
https://www.sltrib.com/news/nation-world/2023/05/02/after-idahos-strict-abortion-ban/
Well this is just fucked up. I don’t know what else to say.
I visited once when I was 18-19 and I was so unsettled to see almost every young adult woman my age pushing grocery carts with back-to-back kids. Like…they had no chance. For a people who value large families I would think maternity care would be exceptionally well funded. I guess they’ll just make preventable death (4 in 5 maternal deaths) even more commonplace for these young women.
I didn’t know ostriches ran the show in Idaho.
