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Jackaloftheazuresand I'm not trying to argue but suing doesn't make any sense because hospitals often dump patients off in the middle of the street. One woman on video laid cold under a blanket unresponsive still in her medical gown as security wheeled her out and dumped her. If it was that easy to sue hospitals then hospitals would be out of business because the people they dump are often in serious medical conditions in which they could unalive. I watched a news report from two years back over a woman who had a life threatening disease and they just tossed her out.
They also use different colored blankets to signal if someone has money or not and you never know what color you are according to hospitals. If it was that easy, we wouldn't have hospitals. Hospitals would have no money left if we could just sue.
Looking it up, I found that current laws already shield providers via informed consent doctrines, while Doyley's suit risk exists only if negligence is proven, not mere refusal outcomes. Full deregulation could spike harms from unqualified providers, clashing with evidence-based care, though it aligns with fetal-personhood limits on lawsuits for bad births. True autonomy balances rights without extremes that endanger lives.
Hospitals get distrusted by black people because of their history with racism and they do get more C sections due to medical neglect and less offered services:
Black women in the US undergo C-sections at higher rates—around 35-37% versus 30-31% for white women—due to a mix of medical, systemic, and bias-related factors.
Key Contributors
Provider Bias and Discretion: Even with identical medical risks, hospital, and doctor, Black women face 20-25% higher odds of unscheduled C-sections, often from clinicians exercising discretion differently, like quicker labor induction or fetal distress calls.
Limited VBAC Access: Black women with prior C-sections are less often offered or supported in vaginal births after cesarean (VBAC), despite evidence VBACs lower overall rates and risks.
Socioeconomic Barriers: Less access to doulas, midwives, or out-of-hospital births (not Medicaid-covered), plus high-risk labeling from comorbidities like hypertension or obesity.
Health Impacts
These disparities persist after adjusting for age, payment source, and fetal factors, worsening maternal mortality (3x higher for Black women) via surgical risks. Training on implicit bias and diverse staffing could help close the gap
But we often can't train bias and open up diverse staffing because whites will complain (I'm white myself but we tend to complain a lot if we teach people critical thinking skills.)