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On Tuesday, July 19, 2022 at 12:39:21 PM UTC-4, Lee wrote:
> Post-Roe, many autoimmune patients=20
> lose access to gold standard drug=20
> July 19=20
>=20
> Six days after the Supreme Court=20
> struck down the right to abortion,=20
> lupus patient Becky Schwarz got=20
> an unexpected message from her=20
> rheumatologist.=20
>=20
> =E2=80=9CThis is a notice to let you know=20
> that we are pausing all=20
> prescriptions and subsequent=20
> refills of methotrexate,=E2=80=9D the=20
> message read. =E2=80=9CThis decision has=20
> been made in response to the=20
> reversal of Roe vs. Wade.=E2=80=9D=20
>=20
> Schwarz was stunned. Methotrexate=20
> is a cheap, common drug prescribed=20
> to millions of Americans. Like her,=20
> many have rheumatic illnesses.=20
> Others take it to treat inflammatory=20
> bowel disease, psoriasis or cancer.=20
>=20
> Yet few are aware that it is used=20
> off-label to end ectopic pregnancies,=20
> or that it could be restricted by=20
> doctors or pharmacists even in states=20
> like Virginia that do not ban abortion.=20
>=20
> In Texas, dispensing methotrexate to=20
> someone who uses it to induce a=20
> miscarriage after 49 days of=20
> gestation is a felony; that makes=20
> pharmacists hesitant to fill such=20
> prescriptions for almost anyone with=20
> a uterus.=20
>=20
> Methotrexate was originally=20
> developed as a chemotherapy agent=20
> more than 60 years ago. But in low=20
> doses, it has proved to be one of=20
> the safest, least expensive and=20
> most effective treatments for=20
> roughly a dozen autoimmune=20
> conditions, from juvenile=20
> idiopathic arthritis to Crohn=E2=80=99s=20
> disease.=20
>=20
> =E2=80=9CIt=E2=80=99s one of the most common=20
> medications that I prescribe,=E2=80=9D=20
> said Dr. Grant Schulert, a=20
> pediatric rheumatology specialist=20
> at Cincinnati Children=E2=80=99s Hospital.=20
> =E2=80=9CIt=E2=80=99s really a mainstay of our=20
> practice.=E2=80=9D=20
>=20
> Indeed, methotrexate was first=20
> approved to treat rheumatic=20
> illnesses in 1959, before Schulert=20
> was born and almost 15 years=20
> before Roe vs. Wade was decided.=20
>=20
> Since its reversal, many patients=20
> have been delayed or denied this=20
> =E2=80=9Cgold-standard=E2=80=9D treatment for=20
> conditions that have nothing to=20
> do with pregnancy.=20
>=20
> =E2=80=9CI have gotten some reports where=20
> children have been denied=20
> methotrexate for their juvenile=20
> arthritis until they=E2=80=99ve proven=20
> they=E2=80=99re not pregnant,=E2=80=9D said Dr.=20
> Cuoghi Edens, an assistant=20
> professor of internal medicine=20
> and pediatrics at University of=20
> Chicago Medicine and a=20
> rheumatology expert who treats=20
> adults and children.=20
>=20
> https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-07-11/post-roe-many-autoim=
=20
> mune-patients-lose-access-to-gold-standard-drug?utm_source=3Dreddit.com


And so, folks, this is what insane right wing thinking has devolved into.  =
Someone needs to tell SCOTUS, especially the right wingers on the bench, th=
at they need to brush up on their pharmacology so as to avoid delivering du=
mbfuck stupid decisions.  The world and medicine today aren't as simple as =
they used to be back in the 1800s where right wingers' brains are still loc=
ked into.  By the way, where the article says that "pharmacists (are) hesit=
ant to fill such prescriptions (methotrexate) for almost anyone with a uter=
us," isn't that against the 14th amendment?

The state can't "deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal prote=
ction of the laws."

So, if it's against the law to prescribe methotrexate to women, it should a=
lso be to men - having a uterus or not shouldn't make a difference under EQ=
UAL protection of the laws.