The Independent in the United Kingdom ran an article on October 9, 2023 about additional fallout from Roe being struck down.

Even in putative liberal states like New York you’re not safe.

A woman diagnosed with cluster headaches was denied medication for them by a neurologist because she is of “childbearing age.”

A 32-year-old woman is suing an upstate New York health system and doctors, alleging that a neurologist refused to provide her treatment because she was of “childbearing age.”

According to the complaint, Tara Rule suffers from cluster headaches, and was seeking treatment from a neurologist at Glens Falls Hospital, which is owned by Albany Med Health Partners.

After her previous doctor retired, she was referred to Dr Jonathan Braiman, and sought treatment from him in September 2022. While at an appointment with Dr Braiman, Ms Rule was told that although there were “safe, effective treatments were available for cluster headaches,” he could not prescribe them due to her insurance not covering care that could cause potential birth defects.

Ms Rule then argued that she already takes medication — Cellcept — for another condition that has the potential to cause birth defects, and her insurance covers that prescription without issue. Dr Braiman then told Ms Rule that she was wrong, and that Cellcept does not wield those side effects. She pressed him to look up the side effects, which he read aloud at the appointment — in a conversation that was recorded.

He then asked the 32-year-old “what she would do in the event of a pregnancy,” the complaint stated. Ms Rule said she would have an abortion.

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The physician then suggested she bring her male partner in to discuss this with him and her present so her partner knew all the risks. He also lied and said her insurance wouldn’t pay for a drug which can cause birth defects (it was already paying for the drug and many other drugs have that theoretical risk, for example every single epilepsy drug).

Woman sues hospital for denying her treatment for debilitating headaches because she’s ‘of childbearing age’

Under the Affordable Care Act, the Civil Rights Act, and New York state law it is against the law to refuse medical care on the basis of sex.

This has always been an inequity of healthcare (doctors and nurses concerned for hypothetical foetii) but this will only get worse with Roe being yeeted. (Oh come on, Firefox, “yeet” was in the dictionary and “Juneteenth” wasn’t?)

She was sent to the emergency room as her condition worsened. She live-streamed the encounter, which caused the hospital to give her the heave-ho onto the street without treatment.

It got worse after her partner posted a Google review about the treatment she got at the hospital.

Just looking through a search engine this hospital gets sued a lot for maltreatment of patients.

I’m not able to ascertain if the case was resolved yet.

This is a cavalcade of horrors. You ain’t safe in a blue state.

She told Jezebel she never wanted a lawsuit against the hospital. All she wanted was an apology.