A Multi-Front War on Life: Felonious Punk’s Agenda Threatens Abortion Access and Fuels Mass Mortality Crisis

In the volatile landscape of post-Roe America under President Felonious Punk, the fight for reproductive autonomy has become a daily battle. But beyond the direct and increasingly brazen attacks on abortion access—from the gutting of federal protections for emergency care to the chilling prospect of criminalizing pregnancy outcomes—lies a broader, more insidious threat embedded in the administration’s fiscal agenda: a “big beautiful bill” that experts warn could lead to tens of thousands of preventable deaths annually, dwarfing even the most immediate concerns within the abortion debate itself.

The administration fired its latest salvo on Tuesday, June 3, 2025, by rescinding crucial Biden-era guidance that affirmed hospitals’ obligations under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) to provide emergency abortions necessary to stabilize a patient’s health, even in states with severe abortion bans. This 1986 law mandates that nearly all U.S. hospitals provide stabilizing treatment for emergency medical conditions, a standard the Biden administration clarified includes abortion when medically necessary to prevent severe harm or death. CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz claimed the rescission would “rectify any perceived legal confusion,” yet medical experts and reproductive rights advocates argue it does the opposite, plunging providers into fear and legal jeopardy, and leaving patients in peril.

The grim reality of this policy was starkly illustrated by the case of Kyleigh Thurman, a Texas woman who, in 2023, was repeatedly sent home by a hospital without treatment for a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy. She ultimately lost part of her reproductive system. A federal investigation later found the hospital violated EMTALA. Now, with the clarifying guidance gone, advocates like Nancy Northup of the Center for Reproductive Rights warn, “The Trump Administration would rather women die in emergency rooms than receive life-saving abortions.” Katie Keith of Georgetown Law added the move will “continue the chilling effect and make doctors terrified to provide what is life- or health-saving care.” The rescission has already impacted the legal landscape, with groups like the Catholic Medical Association, which had sued over the Biden guidance, now dropping their lawsuits in praise of the administration’s action.

Adding another layer of fear, recent revelations from West Virginia indicate some prosecutors are willing to charge women with crimes related to the disposal of fetal remains following a miscarriage or abortion, using existing state laws for disposing of human bodies. Raleigh County Prosecuting Attorney Tom Truman, while personally unwilling to pursue such charges, detailed how colleagues might consider a woman’s perceived emotional state (“If you were relieved… that may play into law enforcement’s thinking”) or gestational age (potentially “nine weeks or later”) as factors. Though legal experts at Pregnancy Justice argue that West Virginia law, lacking broad fetal personhood, doesn’t support such prosecutions, the threat alone creates a climate of terror for women experiencing pregnancy loss.

But as critical as these direct assaults on reproductive healthcare are, the “exterior problem,” as one observer noted, lies within Felonious Punk’s signature “big beautiful bill”—the massive budget reconciliation package narrowly passed by House Republicans in May. According to a chilling analysis by health experts at Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania, requested by Senators Ron Wyden and Bernie Sanders, this bill’s deep cuts to Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace, and its repeal of federal safe staffing standards for nursing homes would lead to an estimated 51,000 additional preventable deaths across the United States each year.

This staggering mortality figure is based on Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that 10.9 million people will lose health insurance by 2034 due to direct cuts, with an additional 5.1 million losing coverage if ACA tax credits expire and other HHS rule changes take effect, bringing the total to 16 million uninsured. The researchers attribute 11,300 deaths to this broad loss of coverage, 18,200 deaths to low-income Medicare beneficiaries losing Medicaid-covered prescription drug subsidies, and 13,000 deaths to the rollback of nursing home staffing rules. “When you throw 13.7 million Americans off the health care they have… tens of thousands will die,” Senator Sanders stated bluntly.

These devastating cuts to the social safety net are, according to the Economic Policy Institute and six Nobel laureate economists, designed to help defray the cost of tax cuts disproportionately benefiting the wealthy. Yet, the bill is still projected to increase the national debt by over $3.1 trillion, likely fueling inflation and interest rate hikes.

The White House has dismissed concerns that “people will literally die” from Medicaid cuts as a “hoax,” instead pushing misleading claims about “able-bodied adults… choosing not to work,” a narrative refuted by Kaiser Family Foundation analysis showing most non-working Medicaid recipients are caregivers, students, or have disabilities. The failure of Arkansas’s Medicaid work requirements to increase employment, while causing 18,000 to lose coverage, further debunks these claims. The callousness of this stance was perhaps best exemplified by Senator Joni Ernst, who, when confronted by constituents about people dying without healthcare, retorted, “Well, we all are going to die,” later releasing a bizarre video from a graveyard mocking such fears.

The rescission of EMTALA guidance, the threat of criminalizing miscarriages, and the sweeping, deadly cuts in the “big beautiful bill” are not isolated events. They represent a multi-pronged assault by Felonious Punk’s administration on the health, autonomy, and very lives of Americans, particularly the most vulnerable. While the “flammable” nature of the abortion debate often centers on the immediate rights of “babies and mothers,” the administration’s broader fiscal policies reveal a far more extensive and lethal disregard for human well-being, demanding an equally urgent and comprehensive response.