Dozens of pregnant women, some bleeding or in labor, are turned away from ERs despite federal law
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More than 100 pregnant women in medical distress who sought help from emergency rooms have been turned away or negligently treated since 2022.

In Texas, where doctors face up to 99 years of prison if convicted of performing an illegal abortion, medical and legal experts say the law is complicating decision-making around emergency pregnancy care.

Although the state law says termination of ectopic pregnancies is not considered abortion, the draconian penalties scare Texas doctors from treating those patients,

  • Nomecks@lemmy.ca
    121·
    3 months ago

    What oath? The hippocratic oath? The unenforced and unenforceable oath that’s actually meaningless?

    • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      421·
      3 months ago

      If it’s meaningless to you, I understand your willingness to kowtow to fascists and their policies.

      • NJSpradlin@lemmy.world
        17·
        3 months ago

        You’re failing to see that the oath is BETTER served by the original commenter’s point:

        if I get close to violating the state law, even with the federal protection, I can lose my license and possibly go to jail, then the uncountable other women I could have helped with less severe problems don’t have a doctor. I would do more harm to more people by trying to perform this abortion.

        And that’s the point, it’s fucked either way.

        • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          415·
          3 months ago

          I mean, I get it, but you know as well as I am that they are going to keep slicing the salami. How many women are you willing to let die, to make die, before you say enough?