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[โ€“] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Unless you want a system where medical emergencies are turned away at the hospital door.

A lot of people definitely want that, especially if it's brown people or LGBT+ people having the emergencies.

[โ€“] Drusas@fedia.io 2 points 3 days ago

Since the fall of Roe, some hospitals with strict abortion bans have been doing exactly just that to pregnant women experiencing emergencies.