Florida doctors are in 'unfathomably dark scenarios' thanks to signature DeSantis policy
Rolling Stone is reporting that more Florida doctors are speaking out against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's signature six-week abortion ban, which they say is endangering their patients.
In fact, the magazine reports that these doctors are confronting "unfathomably dark medical scenarios" that may force them to give up practicing medicine in the state all together unless the abortion ban is repealed by a ballot initiative this November.
Dr. Chelsea Daniels tells Rolling Stone that cutting off access to abortion care just six weeks after pregnancy puts many Florida women in impossible scenarios.
One illustration of this, says Daniels, is a woman who came to see her earlier this year who had a non-viable first-trimester pregnancy who could not get treatment from multiple providers before finally coming to a Planned Parenthood clinic in Miami.
"She had four different ultrasounds confirming non-viability," Daniels says. "We were her fifth appointment — and no one would act, because they were so afraid of what the law could do to them."
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Another doctor, who wished to remain anonymous, tells Rolling Stone that they were treating a cancer patient who got pregnant and who would have had to stop her cancer treatment unless she was able to legally get permission to obtain an abortion on the grounds that chemotherapy posed a risk to the unborn child.
The doctor said that it took him a week to provide documentation needed to get the go-ahead for the procedure, and the woman still had to make a four-hour journey to a hospital that was willing to treat her.
"You want to grab these Supreme Court judges and bring them in the room and say: Look what you are doing to people,” the doctor said. “Let this woman be able to receive palliative chemotherapy, which is the least we can do for her, for Christ’s sake.”