Posted on 09/10/2022 3:26:21 PM PDT by DFG
Conservative analyst and author Candace Owens claims staff at a Tennessee hospital attempted to hold her and her newborn daughter hostage after she gave birth earlier this summer - telling her she was not allowed to leave until they drew blood from the hours-old, perfectly healthy child.
Speaking exclusively with DailyMail.com, the 32-year-old slammed staff at Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville, while recounting the '24 hours of torture' she says she suffered after giving birth to her second child Louise on July 13.
The mother-of-two, who launches the new DailyWire+ podcast, Candace, on Monday, said the alleged mistreatment started after she declined antibiotics and contraction-inducing drugs while going into labor. She added that it culminated in staffers threatening to call child services on the right-wing commentator.
Owens - who married British Oxford grad George Farmer in 2019 - further accused staffers of engaging in a concerted effort to empty her wallet, by keeping her for over 48 hours so her stay was not covered by insurance.
When she refused, Owens says that a hospital pediatrician approached her and her husband as they tried to leave, callously telling the couple 'that she watched a baby die in the 47th hour because her parents refused to stay.'
The pair ignored the staffer, Owens says - despite the workers' false assertions that her insurance would likely not cover the visit if she went against medical advice and left.
When Owens responded that she didn't care, a social worker employed by the hospital asked the couple to sign a document that said they were aware that The Department of Children's Services (DCS) could pay them a visit for leaving against doctor's orders, according to Owens.
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The medical community is a cult
Blast From the Past:
“this post is worthless without pics”....
Thank you. I’ll be here for the duration. Try the veal.....
Pharma industrial complex.
If she’d said the magic word racist they’d probably have accommodated her on anything she wanted.
Oh no. She’s a victim.
Totally not predictable.
That should be universal amongst "birthing persons." It is also why the abortion industry is so opposed to ultrasound laws.
FFS, if you don’t want to follow the laws the state sets…move to another state.
The 24 hour lead test has been standard for almost 50 years.
She should educate herself before swuaking like she is getting abused.
This is BS
When my son was born in OR in 1974 women were leaving with their newborns the same day they gave birth so they didnt have to pay for a stay in the hospital ...
I had to stay in a week because of my own physical problems and about 4 women came through my room that week only staying in the other bed a few hours ...
Mom and baby were OK so they both left ...
The child services folk never showed ...
The doctors work for you, they don’t own you!
Bkmk
She was being abused.
I'm a doc, and if it is a cult I haven't been invited. IMHO there are a**ho**s in every walk of life, in every socioeconomic group, and at any level of education. Clearly there are plenty in medicine, but just as many in law, and many more in politics and the talking head industry. That's why, to me, the most important aspect of traditional America is the protection of each individual's right to self-determine and not be forced into anything by any collection of a**h**s.
I say the Shrek lines all the time to my household..They have started repeating them to people who come over....I think I’ve started a cult......
Nashville = blue zone.
She probably had Group B Strep. Just putting her baby at 20x risk of getting sick because she’s an attention-seeking, confrontational idiot.
If she had a positive group b strep culture prior to delivery (the most common indication for antibiotics during labor) and refused antibiotics she carelessly and callously endangered her infants life to prove whatever she was trying to prove. Without antibiotics those infants need be be monitored closely for 48 hours. With strep sepsis they crash and die within hours. I get it that people here hate doctors but she was wrong here and bet her child’s life on it.
I gave birth at 2am and went home at 7 pm….of course that was in crazy radical California
Not sure I buy all of this. Yes she would have had her sleep disturbed because they take your vitals periodically. But I’ve never heard of ant labor and deliver department rolling a scale into a room to weigh a baby
Congratulations Ms Owens. (And Mr Kirk?)
However, I wonder why she didn’t anticipate something like that - the “pandemic” is supposed to be over yes? no? - and arrange to give birth at a facility where there wouldn’t be a problem. Or you can hire a midwife and give birth at home.
You get nine months when trying to find just the right spot to deliver your precious bundle of joy. Use them well!
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