staffing shortages (related to Dobbs) and refusing to expand Medicaid has destroyed another 3 labor & delivery units in Alabama. some mothers will have to drive 100 miles to get to a hospital with one www.nbcnews.com/health/women...
The state has one of the country’s highest maternal mortality rates. Now, three hospitals plan to stop delivering babies, putting some pregnant women at even higher risk.
This is outrageous, even for Alabama.
This nation is a shithole, man.
pro-life once again, not being pro-life
“It seems no amount of money provided by the hospital board for the support of Labor and Delivery has been sufficient to maintain this service. We have supported, and would continue to support… if there was someone who could provide the service,” the hospital said in a statement.
They need to vote out republicans plain and simple.
And yet there are many women who still vote Republican.
"We demand that you have more white babies to prevent the great replacement but we're also making it unaffordable and dangerous."
Naive question (from a pro-choice Californian): Can you say more about how this is related to Dobbs? I read the piece, and everyone agrees it's a funding stream issue, but it doesn't mention abortion, and it seems more about rural healthcare. After all, we have similar problems in CA.
This also happened in my little rural hometown in NE Florida. If legislators want whole towns to stop growing & slowly (or not so slowly) die off, this is a great way to go about it.
Wow. Two more counties without birthing hospitals, one in the suburbs of Birmingham.