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They'll still be delivering babies, just doing it in the ER without specialists. You think maternal mortality is high now, they're going for a New High Score!
Which is frankly terrifying. ER docs are only required to do 10 deliveries during residency, which are often as glorified observers. I did nearly 100 deliveries in my rural unopposed FM residency and that was no where near enough to feel comfortable making it a part of my practice.
So, yes, they are going to set records.
Rather be dead than be born in Alabama to Alabaman parents. This is a mercy.
Now you can be both at the same time!
i like my humour the way i like my coffee
What the fuck is wrong with you?
Lived near the AL border for years. That's what's fucking wrong with me. FL is absolute garbage but it doesn't hold a candle to the Habsburg Hell that is AL.
I meant what I said. My opinion will change when Alabama stops fucking their cousins and starts joining us in the 21st century.
Did you read the article? This won't affect the rich, white, affluent people in Alabama. It's going to affect predominantly poor, black communities in Shelby and Monroe counties. These communities already lacked sufficient access to prenatal and postnatal care, and now it's getting much worse. Nearly 40% of Alabaman voters (roughly 1,000,000 people) vote democrat, skewing heavily towards poor and minority communities which these policies disproportionately (and some might argue intentionally) harm.
But sure, take the easy cheap shot and vilify an entire state of people as if it's one giant big bad guy, then joke that it's better to be dead than from there. You say you spent years living near the border, so I'm tempted to follow your lead and make a cheap joke about the education you must have received to think it's better to be dead than from a specific area of the USA. But I was born and raised on that border between AL and FL, and I'm capable of wrapping my head around the wild, liberal idea that states are not monolithic entities that take the shape of big bad guys to make easy jokes for you. Alabama, like all states, is full of all kinds of different people trying to live their lives, and they deserve our compassion and our energy to try to make things better, not jokes that they're better off dead because they were born there.
I'm ashamed that you and I spent time in the same area of the country. I'm hoping you don't consider yourself liberal or a democrat, because your simple way of thinking is anything but those things.