Project 2025 staff And when Trump’s former White House personnel director, John McEntee, tried to score points on social media Thursday by denying that women were “bleeding” because of the abortion ban, he probably didn’t expect them to answer him directly.
“Can someone track down the women who said they saw Kamala Harris bleeding in the parking lot? Roe v. Wade “Is it overturned?” asked McEntee in a TikTok video filmed at the restaurant, while dipping his fried food in sauce.
He added with a grin, “Don’t expect much.”
“I’m right here,” said Carmen Broesder, a mother who lives in Idaho, where trigger laws were enacted in the late 1940s. roeIt made it a felony for a doctor to perform an abortion unless it is necessary to prevent the death of the pregnant woman.
Broesder recalled in her video on TikTok how hospital staff turned her away from the emergency room three times during her 19-day miscarriage. She said she was repeatedly turned down for a procedure to remove tissue from her uterus, called a dilation and curettage (D&C), which is also used for abortions, and was only given pain medication once during the 19 days. “I was just passing out in the hallway from the bleeding,” she recalled.
In June, the Supreme Court granted Idaho hospitals the right to perform emergency abortions to protect the health and life of pregnant women, but the ruling is temporary while lower courts review the issue. But the problem isn’t limited to Idaho. In Oklahoma, Jaci Statton suffered from severe bleeding, dizziness, and weakness due to a grapevine pregnancy, a condition in which the fertilized egg doesn’t develop into a fetus. She told NPR that for more than a week, doctors refused to treat her, and she was transferred to three different hospitals. Ultimately, she had to drive three hours to a clinic in Kansas for a D&C.
“The record shows, as a medical reality, that such cases exist,” Justice Elena Kagan wrote in her concurring opinion in the Idaho case. “Idaho hospitals have had to airlift medically vulnerable women out of state to get abortions that prevent serious harm to their health. Such transports measure the difference between a life-threatening condition that Idaho will allow its hospitals to treat and a health-threatening condition that it will not.”
“When I was told that I might have an ectopic pregnancy, I had to ‘wait until I got sepsis’ to have surgery to save my life.”
According to rolling stoneBroesder suffered from irregular blood pressure and stress reactions due to heavy bleeding during the miscarriage, which led to her being diagnosed with a heart condition that can cause her to have a heart attack if she gets too excited or angry. “I have to live with these side effects for the rest of my life because of the abortion laws,” Broesder said in her video.
Broesder’s experience underscores what Vice President Kamala Harris said when she responded to former President Donald Trump’s bizarre claim during the debate that “all legal scholars” wanted to do was Roe v. Wade “Pregnant women who want to carry their pregnancies to term, pregnant women who are suffering miscarriages, pregnant women who are being turned away in emergency rooms because the doctors are afraid they’ll go to jail, pregnant women bleeding out in their cars in parking lots – she didn’t want that,” Harris said. “Her husband didn’t want that either.”
The founder of a conservative dating app, McEntee has a large following on TikTok, where he posts sarcastic, often offensive jokes about race and gender to appeal to his MAGA audience. But his videos have garnered thousands of first-person responses, many of which involve pregnant women telling stories of serious medical complications after being denied treatment.
“I was told that if I had a possible ectopic pregnancy, I would have to ‘wait until I got sepsis’ to have surgery to save my life,” one commenter said.
“My daughter. She had triplets after a miscarriage and almost lost her life because her body wouldn’t come out. 3 different hospitals wouldn’t remove it,” another person replied.
“I’ve been anemic on and off for weeks since my miscarriage,” wrote another commenter. “Three hospitals refused to give me the DNC or birth control protocol. Unimaginable pain and suffering.”
This has continued, with over 19,000 comments as of Saturday.
