NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A three-judge panel on Thursday ruled that Tennessee doctors who provide emergency abortions to protect the life of the mother cannot have their medical licenses revoked or face other disciplinary actions while a lawsuit challenging the state's sweeping abortion ban continues.
The ruling also outlined specific pregnancy-related conditions that would now qualify as "medical necessity exceptions" under the ban, which currently does not include exceptions for fetal anomalies or for victims of rape or incest.
Good because letting the mother die will only kill the unborn child as well because it cannot survive inside the mother is the mother is dead
ReplyDeleteDoctors must be allowed to care for their patients. That includes making the hard decisions, and offering difficult choices to their patients. When you take that choice away from women, we are no longer a civilized society.
ReplyDeleteRight. Tennessee overreached here, and most of us both know it and agree. The legislature got carried away by a few fanatics.
ReplyDeletePresupposes trusting doctor's opinions. Yes opinions not diagnosis. If it can be abused you know it will and no other doctor will call them out on it.
ReplyDeleteLots of doctors who want to provide abortions will just claim its to save the mothers life. It will be abused. Yes the law may have been excessive but this effectively brings back abortion on demand.
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I have a friend of mine whose mother was told by the doctors that she would not survive if she carried him to term. She would not abort him.
ReplyDeleteShe had no problems through the pregnancy.
Steven Paul
ReplyDeleteThose crying overreach will ignore this is the exact same tactic used for 50+ years to get where we are now. You want an abortion for your poor choices? Go fly to some euro-trash location or Mexico. Enough.
ReplyDeleteGood call
ReplyDeleteLawyers playing doctor are almost as bad as legislatures playing doctor.
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And judges playing legislators is also just as bad.....
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Considering how most doctors acted during covid lockdowns pushing the clot shot for bucks not exactly a ringing endorsement of their profession. Nothing but drug pushers.
Delete"Medical necessity exceptions?" WTF. An abortion is, by definition, an elective medical procedure, and a very personal one at that. There's no such thing as a "medically necessary exception." If it's medically necessary then the procedure is NOT an abortion, it's triage. Triage involves making often times extremely difficult decisions to prioritize saving as much life as possible under far less than ideal conditions, where, in many cases, do to those conditions, not all life can be saved.
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