Pregnant mammals
If only doctors could bring themselves to use the word “women”…
The Trump administration on Tuesday rescinded Biden-era guidance clarifying that hospitals in states with abortion bans cannot turn away pregnant patients who are in the midst of medical emergencies – a move that comes amid multiple red-state court battles over the guidance.
The guidance deals with the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (Emtala), which requires hospitals to stabilize patients facing medical emergencies. States such as Idaho and Texas have argued that the Biden administration’s guidance, which it issued in the wake of the 2022 overturning of Roe v Wade, interpreted Emtala incorrectly.
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“This action sends a clear message: the lives and health of pregnant people are not worth protecting,” Dr Jamila Perritt, an OB-GYN and the president of Physicians for Reproductive Health, said in a statement. “Complying with this law can mean the difference between life and death for pregnant people, forcing providers like me to choose between caring for someone in their time of need and turning my back on them to comply with cruel and dangerous laws.”
Dr Jamila Perritt means pregnant women. Generic “people” don’t get pregnant; women get pregnant. Pregnant=specific to women.
You can’t fight this fight and erase women from it at the same time. The women part is central.
And to female giraffes, elephants, and the female part of the rest of the whole zoo.
One can see that Dr Jamila Perritt might want to avoid confusion; and floors knee-deep in elephant shit. So she has a point, IMHO..
Elephant barns are never knee-deep in dung. Fun fact: the keepers remove the dung by means of shovels and wheelbarrows.
Maybe so. But does Dr Jamila Perritt know that?
Just watched a documentary on beetles; dung beetles do the job nicely, too.
And female beetles are the ones that lay the eggs….
Whenever I see “pregnant people”, I think about the quote from Anatole France — ‘The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.’