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CBS News reports an Idaho healthcare facility will no longer be offering labor and delivery services, citing a shortage of doctors and a politicized healthcare environment.
It will be interesting to see how long America will continue putting up with the fringe, religious fruitcake right, war on women.
An Idaho hospital will stop labor and delivery services, citing doctor shortages and the "political climate," the hospital announced Friday.
"Highly respected, talented physicians are leaving. Recruiting replacements will be extraordinarily difficult," Bonner General Health, located in the city of Sandpoint, said in a news release.
Pregnant women who utilized Bonner General, a 25-bed hospital, will now have to drive to hospitals or birthing centers in Coeur d'Alene or Spokane to give birth.
According to Apple Maps, it would take roughly an hour and a half to drive 76 miles to Spokane, and at least an hour to drive 48 miles to Coeur d’Alene — and that’s when weather is good. There’s an obvious need for local birthing services. So, why would Sand Point (and Idaho) have trouble attracting physicians to provide gynecologic and obstetric care?
Republican healthcare fanaticism is likely part of why the U.S. is now leading the developed world in maternal mortality death rates. There used to be a saying — the GOP’s “right to life” ends at birth. For the people of Sand Point, Idaho, it doesn’t even extend to birth now.
Idaho Republican abortion bans have Hospital ending Labor and Delivery Services
CBS News reports an Idaho healthcare facility will no longer be offering labor and delivery services, citing a shortage of doctors and a politicized healthcare environment. An Idaho hospital will ...
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It will be interesting to see how long America will continue putting up with the fringe, religious fruitcake right, war on women.