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Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)
Wed Jun 27, 2012, 03:31 PM Jun 2012

Kansas Doctor May Lose License For Refusing To Force 10 Year-Old To Birth

The Kansas State Board of Healing Arts should read up on Hippocrates and his oath: "First, do no harm."


http://www.care2.com/causes/kansas-doctor-may-lose-license-for-refusing-to-force-10-year-old-to-birth.html

The Kansas State Board of Healing Arts, the governing body that regulates the practice of medicine in the state, stripped the medical license of a woman who refused to force a mentally-ill 10 year old to give birth.

As Robin Marty reports, Dr. Ann Neuhaus became the target of domestic terror group Operation Rescue after her colleague, Dr. George Tiller, was murdered. Neuhaus assisted Tiller by providing second opinions for mental health exceptions for late-term abortions.

Operation Rescue filed a negligence complaint against Neuhaus alleging that her exams were not thorough enough to support her medical conclusions and her follow-up care was inadequate because she did not recommend counseling or hospitalization after each procedure.

Neuhaus offered a rebuttal of her own. “To even claim that isn’t medically necessary qualifies as gross incompetence,” said Neuhaus. “Someone’s 10 years old, and they were raped by their uncle and they understand that they’ve got a baby growing in their stomach and they don’t want that. You’re going to send this girl for a brain scan and some blood work and put her in a hospital?”

Like other states Kansas has made recent attempts to stack their medical review board with anti-choice advocates like former Operation Rescue attorney Richard Macias. When hearing the case against Dr. Neuhaus, the board offered up their own expert to determine if any breach of the standard of care occurred. Not surprisingly, the witnessed insisted that in no cases is abortion a treatment that could be seen as beneficial to a patient’s mental health, further clouding the waters as to the kind of care girls and women can expect in the state of Kansas.

Nuehaus will appeal the ruling. If she loses she will have her license permanently revoked.

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Kansas Doctor May Lose License For Refusing To Force 10 Year-Old To Birth (Original Post) Tierra_y_Libertad Jun 2012 OP
Outrageous. yardwork Jun 2012 #1
+1 Liberal_in_LA Jun 2012 #2
This makes me just LIVID! dmr Jun 2012 #3
UTTER BULLSHIT gaspee Jun 2012 #4
I'm sorry to say, I saw this one coming Scootaloo Jun 2012 #5
Good on you for going there RitchieRich Jun 2012 #22
I mourn for America...... Swede Atlanta Jun 2012 #6
There are no words... just despicable. K&R nt riderinthestorm Jun 2012 #7
Speechless... neeksgeek Jun 2012 #8
WTF?! sakabatou Jun 2012 #9
Shameful. McCamy Taylor Jun 2012 #10
This what they've always wanted: to hurt people. Including young children. DirkGently Jun 2012 #11
re:Kansas Doctor May Lose License For Refusing To Force 10 Year-Old To Birth allan01 Jun 2012 #12
The asshats who run Kansas are out of their freaking gourd. nt valerief Jun 2012 #13
I think I'm gonna be sick. Odin2005 Jun 2012 #14
Calling Rachel Maddow! Rhiannon12866 Jun 2012 #15
I'll second that! avaistheone1 Jun 2012 #32
Talk about going after the wrong person! SunSeeker Jun 2012 #16
This is exactly what they believe in. No such thing as rape or incest, battered women stay married. freshwest Jun 2012 #19
They are, "The Right really are the American Taliban." I have no idea anymore RKP5637 Jun 2012 #28
Wicked grown men Tsiyu Jun 2012 #17
Operation Rescue collects together all of the misogynists so they RKP5637 Jun 2012 #27
Yes they do Tsiyu Jun 2012 #36
Possibly. It runs far deeper than their pretext IMO which is often the case for RKP5637 Jun 2012 #37
My ex-sil's baby had died in utero revolution breeze Jun 2012 #30
Those oh-so-moral protesters know how to make bad go worse Tsiyu Jun 2012 #35
My husband worked with a rightwinger.......... Smilo Jun 2012 #18
religious extremists repulse me n/t RainDog Jun 2012 #20
K&R Solly Mack Jun 2012 #21
Fucking crazy TheKentuckian Jun 2012 #23
If men got pregnant this would never be an issue! n/t hue Jun 2012 #24
Absolutely disgusting. Fantastic Anarchist Jun 2012 #25
Yep, this sure is going to make KS look like a place one would desperately want RKP5637 Jun 2012 #26
My Aunt Claudia revolution breeze Jun 2012 #29
Is it becoming any clearer yet? 99Forever Jun 2012 #31
American Taliban in Kansas strike again. avaistheone1 Jun 2012 #33
Well said! Exactly! n/t RKP5637 Jun 2012 #38
Their ideology has hijacked their humanity. CrispyQ Jun 2012 #34

gaspee

(3,231 posts)
4. UTTER BULLSHIT
Wed Jun 27, 2012, 04:52 PM
Jun 2012

Crazy - I guess the people of Kansas have spoken - they want to live this way by voting these people into office to rule their lives, let them - sane women need to get out to save themselves.

 

Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)
5. I'm sorry to say, I saw this one coming
Wed Jun 27, 2012, 05:04 PM
Jun 2012

Not too long ago I was trolling around a right-wing shithole, and decided to make the point that banning abortion even in case of rape or incest just means that the GOP is advocating the the right of a rapist or pedophile to "own" their victim.

Here we have a teen year old child, raped by her uncle and pregnant. Good fucking god. And the only reaction by the government of the state is to declare the doctor who is literally saving her life a criminal.

RitchieRich

(292 posts)
22. Good on you for going there
Thu Jun 28, 2012, 08:07 AM
Jun 2012

The phrase "preaching to the choir" comes to mind (introduced to my head at Christian youth group). Everyone on this site is of... vaguely similar.... um... all probably going to vote for the same person. I can only imaging the heaping plate of welcome they served you. It would be interesting to organize an outreach program.

Say, If you go somewhere like that again, let me know. We can tag team that shit.
Any sites in particular?

 

Swede Atlanta

(3,596 posts)
6. I mourn for America......
Wed Jun 27, 2012, 06:03 PM
Jun 2012

We must separate medical treatment from religious nuttery. The physician did what, in her professional opinion, was the correct course of treatment for this patient. In my view, based on the limited facts, she was correct.

But what prevents us in future of having a doctor recommend against further cancer treatments because he/she knows the treatment will be very painful for the patient, costly and only provide a small opportunity for an extension or quality of life. The doctor is going to be charged in the same manner.

We cannot have religious beliefs interfering with the conduct of the practice of medicine in this country. Physicians must be free to take decisions and make recommendations on their qualified MEDICAL expertise, not their religious beliefs. A patient should always be free to decide otherwise. But the doctor cannot be held accountable for performing a procedure or recommending a course of treatment that is generally recognized as valid.

DirkGently

(12,151 posts)
11. This what they've always wanted: to hurt people. Including young children.
Wed Jun 27, 2012, 06:11 PM
Jun 2012

Maybe there's a benefit in having that more completely out in the open.

allan01

(1,950 posts)
12. re:Kansas Doctor May Lose License For Refusing To Force 10 Year-Old To Birth
Wed Jun 27, 2012, 06:15 PM
Jun 2012

y are the repugs so interiested in abortion and not jobs
?

SunSeeker

(51,824 posts)
16. Talk about going after the wrong person!
Wed Jun 27, 2012, 10:11 PM
Jun 2012

Every member of the Kansas medical board should be indicted for child abuse. And any doctor who forces a 10-year-old to give birth by refusing to perform an abortion the child requests should lose their license, not the other way around.

This is an outrage, right up there with that hideous Islamic Penal Code that forces women and even young girls to marry their rapists. The Right really are the American Taliban.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2114884/Moroccan-girl-16-kills-judge-forced-marry-man-RAPED-her.html

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
19. This is exactly what they believe in. No such thing as rape or incest, battered women stay married.
Thu Jun 28, 2012, 02:52 AM
Jun 2012

They are legislating this here, why did they complain about Islam? They have said they are against Sharia law, but what is this, but the same thing under another name? This is not the America I grew up or thought I would grow old in. I am sick.

RKP5637

(67,112 posts)
28. They are, "The Right really are the American Taliban." I have no idea anymore
Thu Jun 28, 2012, 09:16 AM
Jun 2012

what it's going to take to wake Americans the F up, to get their head out of their butt, and look at what's happening to this country.

Tsiyu

(18,186 posts)
17. Wicked grown men
Wed Jun 27, 2012, 10:55 PM
Jun 2012


wishing to further scar a raped, pregnant, traumatized little girl just so they can get even with women.

Operation Rescue is so vile, but maybe we are all vile for letting this War on Women rage on.




RKP5637

(67,112 posts)
27. Operation Rescue collects together all of the misogynists so they
Thu Jun 28, 2012, 09:13 AM
Jun 2012

can practice their hatred against women.

RKP5637

(67,112 posts)
37. Possibly. It runs far deeper than their pretext IMO which is often the case for
Fri Jun 29, 2012, 08:48 AM
Jun 2012

those with these authoritarian sociopathic control freak causes.

revolution breeze

(879 posts)
30. My ex-sil's baby had died in utero
Thu Jun 28, 2012, 09:50 AM
Jun 2012

Her doctor said she should go into spontaneous labor within 48 hours, if not, the doctor would have to intervene. Labor didn't start and the closest facility which could safely perfrom the procedure was a Planned Parenthood clinic. However, the walk into the clinic was the worst experience. Some jackass protester stopped Risa and said "You are going in there to kill your baby." Already emotional she screamed "My baby is already dead. These people are going to save my life." She said you could hear a pin drop and the protesters blocking the door stepped silently out of her way. The clinic allowed her doctor to be there with her as she felt more comfortable with him there, provided a private room for the family to grieve, and provided her with a counselor to help her through the entire experience. They even allowed her to leave by a back entrance so she would not have to face the protesters again.

Tsiyu

(18,186 posts)
35. Those oh-so-moral protesters know how to make bad go worse
Thu Jun 28, 2012, 10:18 PM
Jun 2012


Sorry to hear of her experience but thanks for sharing the reality.

A very sad situation all around

Smilo

(1,944 posts)
18. My husband worked with a rightwinger..........
Wed Jun 27, 2012, 11:11 PM
Jun 2012

the rightie said that if his wife was ever raped he would force her to carry the child full term and they would bring up that child.

But this guy was so openly racist, nasty and mean about anyone who wasn't a white male - if his wife was raped by anyone not of the white heritage - I have no doubt at all that they would be waiting at the clinic for the doors to open.

RKP5637

(67,112 posts)
26. Yep, this sure is going to make KS look like a place one would desperately want
Thu Jun 28, 2012, 09:09 AM
Jun 2012

to move to for employment. KS can put on one more notch for being the leader of RW political and religious loonies. KS = Krazy Shit

revolution breeze

(879 posts)
29. My Aunt Claudia
Thu Jun 28, 2012, 09:33 AM
Jun 2012

was mentally ill and as an adult, had the mental age of 9. I was very young when she was raped by a "friend" at the age of 15. The family went against doctors advice and allowed her to give birth. Twenty years later she still walked around the house asking everyone where she had left her baby. The memory brings tears to my eyes. I wish she had had a Dr. Ann Neuhaus fighting for her. My grandmother (her mother) has Alzheimers but I sometimes wonder if she remembers hurting Claudia that much.

99Forever

(14,524 posts)
31. Is it becoming any clearer yet?
Thu Jun 28, 2012, 09:53 AM
Jun 2012

These sociopaths will stop at nothing to stomp our choices and freedoms into the ground. A shitstorm is brewing and the clock is ticking. The day is fast approaching to choose a side to be on, I stand on the side of the 99%. This is a direct assault on women's RIGHTS, just as all of our RIGHTS are being assaulted from every angle. How long will WE kneel for them?

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