Hospitals in Missouri and Kansas violated federal law when they refused to provide an emergency abortion to a woman who went into premature labor at nearly 18 weeks and risked developing a lift-threatening infection, federal investigation finds.
May 1, 2023, 5:32 PMMylissa Farmer at home in Joplin, Mo., Sept. 28, 2022. Farmer had to travel to Illinois to terminate her pregnancy when her water broke at 17 weeks and 5 days, putting her life in danger.
Patients are "really being forced to wait until they are on the brink before hospitals will intervene," Banker added. "And what this decision makes clear is that federal law does not allow hospitals to put patients in that impossible scenario." "She expressed concern of infection with ruptured membranes," according to a federal report on Farmer's case. Doctors at the hospital "discussed that unless delivery becomes emergent, we are unable help her deliver due to current state law while fetus has a heartbeat, even the fetus is not viable."
"The University of Kansas Health System follows federal and Kansas law in providing appropriate, stabilizing, and quality care to all of its patients, including obstetric patients," the hospital wrote. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra listens in a meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, April 12, 2023 in Washington, DC.MORE: Supreme Court keeps status quo on abortion pill for now, Thomas and Alito dissent
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