Florida is sinking into reaction

Recently, on April 14, in the south where the fascists walk the day, Floridia’s state legislature has outlawed abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, as a cementing measure to effectively restrict abortions since the overturn of Roe v. Wade.

The law itself is a deadlock on abortion for people with ovaries, who often don’t learn about their pregnancy until after six weeks. Despite the nuance cases that have been brought forth in these conservative states that miscarriages and deadly conditions like “pre-viability preterm prelabor rupture of the membranes (PPROM) are valid medical, not “cultural” reasons why a person would need to receive an abortion. Although the bills to control the body autonomy of people vulnerable to pregnancies continue.”

“In 18 states with abortion bans before fetal viability, doctors have been turning away mothers who are suffering from PPROM. This has been happening with deadly consequences—according to a student, 57% of pre-viability PPROM patients in Texas who were not given the option to have an abortion “experienced a serious maternal morbidity,” as opposed to 33% of those who did have an abortion.”

And now the deaths are piling on, just recently a woman named Anya Cook died from PPROM, which could have been avoided if the 15-week abortion ban wasn’t up, which occurred prior to the recent bill pass.

“In Cook’s case, she rushed to the emergency room when her water broke prematurely after nearly six weeks of pregnancy. She was experiencing a potentially life-threatening condition, pre-viability preterm prelabor rupture of the membranes (PPROM). However, at the hospital she was told that the doctor could not induce an abortion due to the 15 week ban in the state, even though this is the typical treatment for PPROM. She was told to leave, offered antibiotics, and a nurse ominously told her that she would “pray for her”.

The next day, Cook had a miscarriage in the bathroom of a hair salon. She was rushed to the hospital, lost half the blood in her body throughout the day, and almost died on the operating table. She made it out of the experience alive, but will have to undergo her second surgery to remove remaining pieces of the pregnancy from her body, and her chances of ever having children have become slimmer. Doctors say that Cook’s experience would have been far less life-threatening had an abortion been induced the first time she went to the hospital.”

The bill that was passed is already under scrutiny by the popular opinion, since Florida governor and legislate are essentially acting upon a lack of public consent to establish these bills. The recent data shows that, “A majority of people in the US believe that abortion should be legal in all or most cases. Nearly two-thirds of people are against laws that ban abortion around when a fetal heartbeat could be detected, which is around six weeks. Every time abortion has been on the ballot for a popular vote in the US in the past few years, the people have voted to uphold a woman’s right to choose.”