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Nevilledog

(51,345 posts) Sat Apr 27, 2024, 03:43 PM Apr 27

TX: New reporting requirements for life-saving abortions worry some doctors

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/25/texas-medical-board-abortion/

Doctors who perform life-saving abortions may soon be required to document whether they first tried to transfer the patient to another facility to avoid terminating the pregnancy, a move some say goes beyond the language of the law.

Health lawyers and doctors worry this proposed requirement further disincentivizes doctors from performing medically necessary, but legally risky, abortions.

“This creates even more uncertainty for doctors who were already concerned,” said Rachael Gearing, a Dallas health care lawyer who represents OB/GYN clinics. “It's basically saying, ‘Well, you should have passed your patient off to someone else who would have held out longer and wouldn't have done the abortion.’”

Texas’ laws allow abortions to save a patient’s life, but doctors have struggled to apply that exception in practice, especially when faced with up to life in prison, fines and the loss of their medical license.

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TX: New reporting requirements for life-saving abortions worry some doctors (Original Post) Nevilledog Apr 27 OP

Pregnant women will become a hot potato between hospitals until they die. Oneironaut Apr 27 #1

Yes docs will just keep dumping the liability to another hospital. Irish_Dem Apr 27 #4

A bazillion years of med school and they MOMFUDSKI Apr 27 #2

Well, as the article said, they just need to "weigh" the circumstances in their head! Oneironaut Apr 27 #3

...an adequate punishment for getting pregnant... Wednesdays Apr 27 #6

Objection.... brooklynite Apr 27 #5

Oneironaut

(5,551 posts)

1. Pregnant women will become a hot potato between hospitals until they die.

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Sat Apr 27, 2024, 03:45 PM

Apr 27

Aka, just as the GOP wants, to punish them for having sex (with other people than them).

Irish_Dem

(48,222 posts)

4. Yes docs will just keep dumping the liability to another hospital.

Reply to Oneironaut (Reply #1)

Sat Apr 27, 2024, 04:05 PM

Apr 27

Unil the woman dies.

MOMFUDSKI

(5,831 posts)

2. A bazillion years of med school and they

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Sat Apr 27, 2024, 03:46 PM

Apr 27

have to screw around with documentation in order to stay out of prison. WTF?

Oneironaut

(5,551 posts)

3. Well, as the article said, they just need to "weigh" the circumstances in their head!

Reply to MOMFUDSKI (Reply #2)

Sat Apr 27, 2024, 03:53 PM

Apr 27

“Does this woman have enough sepsis to be treated here, or, can we pass the liability to the next hospital 20 miles away?”

This is fucking insane. We’re in the bad timeline where we’re being taken over by delusional Fascists who think death is an adequate punishment for getting pregnant.

Wednesdays

(17,509 posts)

6. ...an adequate punishment for getting pregnant...

Reply to Oneironaut (Reply #3)

Sat Apr 27, 2024, 04:23 PM

Apr 27

And in many, if not most cases, the woman is married and her husband is the father. What, in God's name, do they think she did to warrant "punishment?"

brooklynite

(95,083 posts)

5. Objection....

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Sat Apr 27, 2024, 04:10 PM

Apr 27

Remember Terri Schiavo in Florida? Congress and the President interfered in family decisions on end of life care, based not on medical diagnosis but on politicians and "experts" looking at video-tapes. I refuse to give creedence to a diagnosis of any sort for Trump absent an actual in-person medical review.

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