Hekate
Hekate's Journal"At UC, a betrayal over reproductive care" -- this will make your blood boil
Highly recommend reading the entire thing at link.
Los Angeles Times, page A2, by Michael Hiltzik
One year ago, the University of California Board of Regents voted to approve an uncompromising policy governing the terms of partnerships between UCs medical schools and Catholic hospital systems.
The policy led UC doctors to believe that they would be permitted to provide any care they judged warranted for their patients, including performing abortions and contraceptive implants that are otherwise forbidden at Catholic healthcare facilities.
They couldnt be required to transfer or refer those patients to non-religious hospitals if moving them or delaying treatment would be detrimental to the patients care, as is often the case.
But somehow the language changed when the regents vote was translated into a formal UC policy. The policy now fails to guarantee that UC doctors can perform any procedure they deem necessary, only that they can prescribe and counsel patients about their options.
And it now says doctors can refuse to transfer a patient only if the move would risk material deterioration to the patients condition. Thats a stricter standard that doctors say deprives them of significant discretion to direct patient treatment.
https://enewspaper.latimes.com/infinity/latimes/default.aspx?token=42e23962a5d74614be16bae3d62d13e7&utm_id=62001&sfmc_id=1778350&edid=7d901b0c-7721-4c63-b7b6-9a45d35cc342
https://enewspaper.latimes.com/infinity/latimes/default.aspx?token=42e23962a5d74614be16bae3d62d13e7&utm_id=62001&sfmc_id=1778350&edid=7d901b0c-7721-4c63-b7b6-9a45d35cc342
I just read the whole thing, & it just rips my heart
TY Nevilledog
Edited to add your links for my own archives
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/18/health/young-girls-pregnancy-childbirth.html
No paywall
https://archive.ph/HNYtr
LATimes: A Desert Oasis for Abortion Patients / Imperial Valley clinic sees surge from Arizona
Cross-posted from California
There have been questions on and off about planning (or lack of it) for the fall of Roe. This article answers a lot of those questions: planning, co-ordination, assistance all have been in motion for quite awhile. Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest are heroes.
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https://enewspaper.latimes.com/infinity/latimes/default.aspx?token=42e23962a5d74614be16bae3d62d13e7&utm_id=61499&sfmc_id=1778350&edid=5ac9bd6c-63dd-4b49-ad20-dc3f68161c0e
A DESERT OASIS FOR ABORTION PATIENTS
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The El Centro clinic was always busy. Now its overwhelmed as it finds itself on the front lines of the drastic changes wrought by the U.S. Supreme Courts recent Dobbs decision
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A recent report from the UCLA School of Laws Center on Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy estimates that between 8,000 and 16,100 more people will journey to California each year for abortion care, and at least half of those will travel from Arizona because of the long border it shares with California.
Since the Dobbs decision, out-of-state patients have increased at all 19 clinics in San Diego, Riverside and Imperial counties affiliated with Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest.
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In El Centro, (office manager) Perez,
. had long prepared for a rise in patient visits.
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In the Imperial Valley, the Planned Parenthood center in El Centro is one of the most affected because its the closest to Arizona, where legal abortion care vanished overnight.
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Out-of-state patients especially Arizonans arent something new for the El Centro center. Ever since it opened seven years ago, it was clear that Planned Parenthood-Imperial Valley Health Center wouldnt just serve El Centro.
An easy 20-minute drive from the Mexican border and an hour from Yuma, Ariz., the center has long served as a refuge, particularly for Mexicans and Arizonans seeking abortion care.
.. Its not far from Yuma, Phoenix, Tucson.
Anticipating that Arizona might be one of those states to do away with abortion if Roe fell, Planned Parenthood officials in California and Arizona created a system to provide coordinated abortion care and help funnel Arizonans to providers in California. Planned Parenthood staffers in Arizona confirm each case of pregnancy and then refer the patients to clinics in California.
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Sorry, no. Hell No. There is no compromise to be had with them
I know this is long, but I feel it had to be said to you and all those who think compromise is an option.
Our home-grown theocrats have gone so far over the line that there is no compromise. There never was any compromising with them. It never was about babies. If it was, someone in the legislatures writing those no exceptions laws would have realized that a girl who was impregnated at age 9 (she only just turned 10) is still a baby herself. It was only ever about women and not allowing us to own our own bodies and shape our own futures.
I know you mean well, but what if there had been talk of compromise about chattel slavery? Really those peoples lives could have been improved with better places to sleep and limits on whipping and raping. Maybe a mess-hall with abundant healthy food. It wouldnt be so bad.
But when something is called slavery right up front, people with a conscience will recoil. And the human soul cries out for freedom and the rights to ones own bodies and own thoughts and actions.
Because most women and girls in this country have a decent life in 2022, it is easy to forget how we got here. The keystone of it all without which everything collapses is contraception.
They, the Right Wing, started redefining the most reliable forms of birth control as abortifacients years ago.
Thats when I knew it was not just about abortion, but more deeply about every social advance women have made since we got the vote. Every social advance weve made since Margaret Sanger went to prison for telling women how they could avoid unwanted pregnancies. (By the way, since the dawn of time women have tried to control their fertility, and have done so. Alito is a damn fool if he thinks otherwise.)
Having a prospective employer say, But youll just get pregnant, or having your current employer say straight up the reason you as a married woman cant get that promotion is because Youll just get pregnant is something that will return in a heartbeat when contraceptives are once again unavailable. Because it will once again be true.
It goes further. My grandfather, born in the 1880s, told his 3 daughters that college for them was pointless because they were just going to get married and have babies. His 3 sons went to college.
American men are in for a very rude awakening if they somehow think this is only a womans issue.
When inflation & lagging wages for men really started to bite, women had already entered the workforce in large numbers. It was the wages of married women, long considered secondary in the family budget, that propped up the middle class as long as it did.
More than one or two children completely erodes family finances: childcare and diapers and formula are incredibly expensive.
One thing I never see factored in is the destruction of public schools, with the twofold push to homeschool and/or send the kids to private schools. Who homeschools? Mothers.
The pandemic shutdown put the religious right agenda on steroids: get the moms out of career jobs and back in the home where they belong, get the kids out of public schools and into a homeschooling setting where mom is the full time teacher, divert taxes away from K-12 public schools.
And if women once again cannot reliably control their fertility, it will fall to the man of the house to be the sole provider of an ever-expanding brood.
I hate the RW GOP so much there are hardly words for it. DONT YIELD AN INCH.
Life and health of the mother, rape, incest. Those were the 3 exceptions in the Bad Old Days...
Cultures and countries that allowed women to DIE with a dead fetus inside them were barbaric. That allowed women to BLEED OUT were barbaric. That forced a CHILD, a LITTLE GIRL to remain pregnant were barbaric. That forced a woman to bear a RAPISTs baby were barbaric.
THATs how we knew WE were not barbaric.
To be sure, we ourselves screwed up royally all those years and then we got better, and better, and better. Contraception, for Gods sake. Abortion without going septic. Gay rights. LGBTQ+ rights including marriage and family.
And now we stand to lose it all, and the Barbarians will rejoice.
Yo Momma Bin Kicktoons. Horsey's great...
One of my memories from the Bad Old Days was from when I was about 12 or 13 myself and read an article that said that in some benighted US state the minimum age for marriage for girls was age 12. The mind reeled.
As you say, that is your opinion. Unlike the author of the book and her colleagues, you haven't ...
spent decades collecting data and sifting it for patterns.
Nor have I, but oddly enough, after 4 years of a Trump presidency and a literal insurrection, I do believe the monsters and hate-mongers among us seriously intend to do exactly what they say they plan to do.
The DC insurrection was mocked early on as the beer-belly putsch, probably in an attempt to whistle past the graveyard, given how shaken we all were.
Then someone with a better grasp of history wrote an article about the actual Beer Hall Putsch. We all know it failed. And then something-something Hitler became Chancellor. That something-something took 10 years Hitler never gave up, and his followers never gave up, and out of their success came the death camps and gas chambers, 6 million dead Jews, and IIRC nearly that number of Gypsies, Jehovahs Witnesses, political opponents, clergy, gays, Blacks, Slavic peoples, mentally disabled, POWs and Resistance fighters, artists
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Just sayin. Evil walks among us, and has awakened.
Kick for visibility
Activists all over the country need to start keeping files on info like this. The following are all in my DU Bookmarks file
Such as:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216898969
And:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216867324
And:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216851887
And:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216852751
And now this:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216901167
Go to Right Wing Watch and start reading
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/List of RW/ hate organizations
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/organizations/
Also Southern Poverty Law Center
https://www.splcenter.org/
SPLC Hatewatch
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch
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