Shanae Smith-Cunningham arrived at Memorial Regional Hospital on Dec. 21, 2022 — five days after her water broke, only halfway through her pregnancy. Despite her pleas for treatment and the risks to her health, staff at the Hollywood, Fla., hospital turned her away amid the state’s new abortion restrictions.

The decision to send Smith-Cunningham home put her life in peril, health officials later determined

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    The conservative majority clearly hates women and will do the worst thing, which will be keeping it vague enough that doctors are afraid to provide care while not making it an outright ban just like several states have implemented an effective ban without making it explicit.

    If the conservative justices cared about women’s safety at all they would just recognize the right to pregnant women’s bodily automomy. Then they could balance that with a viabke fetus and end up with the exact same outcome as Roe v Wade. But since they threw that in the trash openly, we aren’t getting back there while they are on the bench.