Hospitals are facing questions about why they denied care to pregnant patients and whether state abortion bans have influenced how they treat those patients.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, sent inquiries to nine hospitals ahead of a hearing Tuesday looking at whether abortion bans have prevented or delayed pregnant women from getting help during their miscarriages, ectopic pregnancies or other medical emergencies.
Republicans on Tuesday assailed the hearing, with outright denials about the impact abortion laws have on the medical care women in the U.S. have received, and called the hearing a politically-motivated attack just weeks ahead of the presidential election. Republicans, who are noticeably nervous about how the new abortion laws will play into the presidential race, lodged repeated complaints about the hearing’s title, “How Trump Criminalized Women’s Health Care.”
“Hey, I’m making laws that puts you in prison if you helped certain people, but then question you when you don’t help them”. Best logic ever.
It’s actually different people saying those two parts of the sentence. As a US Senator, Eden is positioned to submit a bill to protect abortion at the federal level. So this hearing is likely for gathering information to use in a bill to restore abortion rights nationally, rather than an attempt to bully the healthcare providers.