Beliefs have become more important than people. As much as I like The Big Lebowski, it did people wrong by defining nihilism as believing in nothing. Nihilism is not believing in what exists.

Example: ask a woman in Texas suffering from an #ectopic pregnancy crisis if beliefs matter more than all medical #experience and #knowledge. The answer to that question is "yes." And it doesn't matter what they #believe, they don't believe in what exists and that is nihilism.

https://open.substack.com/pub/thesparkmag/p/exposing-religious-nihilism?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1vlkkg

Exposing Religious Nihilism

Abortion Bans, Miscarriage Deaths, and the Rejection of What Exists

The Spark
Florida Doctors Describe Dystopic Horrors as DeSantis Tries to Tank Abortion Measure

Ron DeSantis deploys state funds to keep Florida’s six-week abortion ban, as patients are denied cancer treatment and care to end ectopic pregnancies.

Rolling Stone
Texas women denied care for ectopic pregnancies proves exceptions are a "farce", experts say

Two complaints filed against Texas hospitals reflect a bigger issue about abortion ban exceptions

Salon.com

Texas women denied abortions for #ectopic #pregnancies
☀️demand federal investigation

Two women say hospitals violated emergency care laws by denying treatment for life-threatening condition

Two Texas women who were denied abortion care for life-threatening ectopic pregnancies have filed complaints with the Biden administration calling for investigations into the hospitals for violating federal law.

An #ectopic #pregnancy is a dangerous condition in which the fertilized egg implants in the fallopian tube instead of the uterus.

♦️It has no chance of developing into a healthy pregnancy.

👉One of the complaints details how Kyleigh Thurman, a 25-year-old woman from Burnet, Texas,
was turned away at Ascension Williamson hospital in February, ⚠️even though her OB-GYN told the hospital she probably had an ectopic pregnancy.

Days later, she returned, #bleeding and in severe #pain, but only received treatment after her OB-GYN traveled to the hospital
“to plead with the medical staff” to terminate Thurman’s ectopic pregnancy.

However, 💥the delay caused her ectopic pregnancy to rupture.

🔥Thurman nearly bled to death and was forced into emergency surgery to remove her fallopian tube.

Her ability to have children is now compromised.

👉According to the second complaint, Kelsie Norris-De La Cruz experienced a similar harrowing ordeal at Texas Health Arlington Memorial hospital, outside Dallas.

By the time she received treatment, her pregnancy was near rupture.

💥Norris-De La Cruz lost a fallopian tube and most of her right ovary.

♦️Ectopic pregnancy is the leading cause of maternal mortality in the first trimester, comprising up to 10% of all pregnancy-related deaths nationwide.

“Despite the fact that my life was clearly in danger, the hospital told me that they could not help me.

I ended up losing half of my fertility and if I was made to wait any longer, it’s very likely I would have died,” said Norris-De La Cruz in a press release

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/13/texas-abortion-ectopic-pregnancy-investigation?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Texas women denied abortions for ectopic pregnancies demand federal investigation

Two women say hospitals violated emergency care laws by denying treatment for life-threatening condition

The Guardian

I just made my post about these sticky notes and my #StickersAndStamps project public.

The idea is that I send some of these out to folks who request them as part of my #StickersAndStamps project, and they stick them up in places where people can see them.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/101665552

#art #womensrights #healthcare #CitizenScience #stickers #ectopic

Sticky Notes with Protest Art! | Kristin Henry

Get more from Kristin Henry on Patreon

Patreon
Word Search Puzzle 91

Word List : #ectopic #tellable #brumes #xerosis #fomented #lind #scaut #unedible #culled #eveck #becard #ovarin #incas #alidades #landhold #cavort #miscalls #pitpan

Kara Finance
My colleagues at University of Aberdeen are looking for input from people who have experienced an #ectopic pregnancy in the last 5 years to help them design research into new treatments. If interested please email [email protected] or [email protected]
Please boost!