Mortellus said they live in North Carolina near the state line, where abortion is still legal. Her doctor is in South Carolina, where abortion is now illegal. Healthcare providers there can deny service because they *feel* like it. She said she will be looking for a new doctor.
If you are female and have an immunodeficiency disease, you can be denied drugs that help you live a more normal life and help you function because you MiGhT get pregnant.
One of my children has an immunodeficiency disease and takes some powerful medicines. I thank all the deities she had a hysterectomy.
My husband has Rheumatoid, and takes some wicked shit, too, but he doesn't have to worry about it. But he's an old man.
Those drugs help him, and help thousands of other people, men and women, of all ages, live a better quality of life than they would have without them. Before he saw the Rheumatologist, he barely even moved because of the pain he was in. He couldn't lie down in bed because it hurt so bad. Since he's been on all these drugs, methotrexate being one of them, things are not back to the way they used to be before RA, but they are better. He can sleep in bed. He can function. He can drive the car. He can do some puttering around the house.
I cannot imagine what's gong to happen to the women with RA who have their medicine taken away from them because they are women.
And that's just Rheumatoid Arthritis. How many other immunodeficiency diseases / auto immune disorders are there? How many people have them?
It is my sincere wish and hope that ALL the women RA patients who applauded the striking down of Roe v Wade are also denied the drugs that help them function and lead any sort of "normal" life. May they feel the pain these drugs used to control for them. May they suffer.
