{"id":226590,"date":"2020-07-01T14:20:40","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T19:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=226590"},"modified":"2020-07-01T13:49:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T18:49:17","slug":"democratic-senator-katrina-jackson-supreme-court-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/democratic-senator-katrina-jackson-supreme-court-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Senator Katrina Jackson: The Supreme Court ‘has ignored the cries of women’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Katrina Jackson, the Democratic Louisiana State Senator behind the “Unsafe Abortion Protection Act,” is speaking out about the Supreme Court of the United States’ decision to strike down<\/a> that law in their\u00a0June Medical Services v. Russo<\/em> ruling. Calling the majority 5-4 ruling a “tragic decision” in an op-ed for USA Today<\/a>, Jackson said she is shocked by the lack of concern for the women of Louisiana’s health and well-being.<\/p>\n

Jackson wrote that the SCOTUS ruling puts “the interests of for-profit businesses ahead of the health and safety of women….” She noted that Delta Clinic of Baton Rouge has “a decades-long history<\/a> of unsanitary conditions and substandard medical care that most recently led to a woman requiring a full hysterectomy following an incomplete abortion.” The abortion facility did not have IV fluids available at the time of this abortion and the patient required four units of blood over three days at the hospital. The worst part, however, was because abortionists are not required to have admitting privileges<\/a> at area hospitals (as is required of every other ambulatory surgical center doctor), the patient was essentially abandoned by the abortionist who injured her.<\/p>\n

Jackson referred to this as a “loophole” in the laws of Louisiana, and it is a loophole she is determined to fix.<\/p>\n

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