Earlier this week, we were treated to Rep. Kat Cammack blaming “the left” for an ectopic pregnancy nearly killing her last year. Now she’s back at it, attacking the Biden administration for the closure of maternal health clinics across the country during a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing this Tuesday.
Cammack, of course, ignored the underlying reason for these closures, and her support for the Dobbs decision.
From CNN last year: First on CNN: US faces maternity care crisis, with 1 in 3 counties lacking obstetric doctors to provide care, report warns:
The United States is facing an ongoing maternity health crisis in which 1 in every 3 counties does not have a single obstetric clinician, affecting women’s access to care, according to a new report.
The report, released Tuesday by the infant and maternal health nonprofit March of Dimes, says that in many parts of the country, obstetrician/gynecologists and family physicians who deliver babies are leaving the workforce, which worsens access to care. […]
