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The Dobbs mission continues to be accomplished

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And it has nothing to do with “life” or most especially protecting mothers:

When Kaitlyn Joshua found out she was pregnant in mid-August, she and her husband, Landon Joshua, were excited to have a second baby on the way. They have a 4-year-old daughter, and thought that was just the right age to help out with a younger sibling.

At about six weeks pregnant, Joshua, 30, called a physicians’ group in Baton Rouge. She wanted to make her first prenatal appointment there for around the eight-week mark, as she had in her first pregnancy. But Joshua says the woman on the line told her she was going to have to wait over a month.

“They specifically said, ‘We now no longer see women until they’re at least 12 weeks,'” Joshua recalls. “And I said, ‘Oh Lord. Is this because of what I think? And they said, ‘Yes.'”

She remembers the woman on the phone saying that since the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, and with what the woman called a gray area in Louisiana’s law, the group was delaying the first prenatal appointment with patients.

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During those early weeks of pregnancy, Joshua experienced symptoms she hadn’t dealt with in her first pregnancy: mild cramping and spotting. Without access to a doctor, though, Joshua felt like she had nowhere to go for answers.

“How in the world can we have a viable health care system for women, especially women of color, when they won’t even see you for 12 weeks?” she says.

I also seem to have missed the stories of Louisiana enacting social democratic healthcare policies at the urging of the anti-abortion movement that controls the state legislature.

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