Another Idaho hospital is shutting down its maternity ward. Half of the OBGYNs in the state are leaving or considering leaving - and no new OBGYNs want to move there because of the abortion ban. There's no overstating how bad this is going to get ktvb.com/article/news/l…
I wrote about the hospital closure and other abortion news from today - including Arkansas Republicans rejecting an exception for child rape victims jessica.substack.com/p/abortion-eve…
@JessicaValenti @charles_gaba We’ll maybe they should stop voting for Republicans. Just a thought
@JessicaValenti The truth: There are dr shortages and hospitals shutting down across the country, and have been long before Dobbs. Pro-life laws aren't the problem. secularprolife.org/2023/03/idaho-…
@JessicaValenti @LOLGOP My comment might seem heartless compared to real harm this is causing women, but I thought GOP was pro economic growth. Ambitious, smart professionals of any gender will avoid Idaho.
@JessicaValenti Idaho women and their families are learning elections have consequences.
@JessicaValenti @TranslatorBot2k Idaho classes women as livestock
@JessicaValenti Links an article that shows they're closing for lack of demand for the service...
@JessicaValenti You OBVIOUSLY DID NOT READ THE ARTICLE!!! "In a press release, Valor Health says they are facing serious problems due to inflation, staff shortages, decreasing reimbursements and impacts of COVID-19. The hospital is projected to deliver less than 50 babies this year."
@JessicaValenti This is what happens when the extremes take over. Sane people should be able to compromise on something like the European model of 15 weeks plus exceptions and not this ban on red states and no limits on blue ones.
@JessicaValenti Y’all white people are speaking so freely in this thread about what women in red states “deserve”. You all are not for us. There are so many Black women in these states who will die because of what white conservative women did and now y’all don’t care about us because