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Third woman dies under Texas’ abortion ban as doctors use riskier miscarriage treatments
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Bingo.
My dude, my guy, are you talking about the doctors not at this facility that ProPublica talked to after the case? Because the only two staff I recall from the article who were mentioned to be treating Ngumezi at the time were nurse Esmeralda Acosta who said nothing about D&C and Dr. Andrew Davis, the one who recommended misoprostol.
Thank you for pointing all this out. People like to talk big online without a second thought and it's good when someone has the energy to reveal their mental deficiencies.
Over a dozen doctors confirmed to ProPublica after the fact that D&C was needed, something I'm sure Davis himself recognized. We're in agreement there. Not a single one of those doctors placed the blame on Davis; instead, they correctly blamed it on the law. The way you phrased your previous comment, intentionally or not, implies that there were multiple doctors who wanted to intervene but that Davis somehow undermined them.
The point of this paragraph wasn't that "all the staff except Davis agreed she needed a D&C". The point is that Davis was forced into malpractice by a christofascist law and then ignored the notes about bleeding by multiple nurses because, again, his other option (proper care for heavy bleeding) was a potential first-degree murder charge. And I can imagine OB-GYNs don't want to face a malpractice suit every time they have to treat a patient with a life-threatening miscarriage because of what their fascist government effectively forces them to do. That wasn't him "going rogue" while the nurses stood in solidarity bravely willing to go to risk jail with him like you're implying.
Also, to call it not wanting to "risk his career" is disingenuous as fuck. What Davis did here is risk his career through malpractice; what OB-GYNs in Texas are doing by giving proper care is risking their career and the rest of their life. This is the position these doctors are placed in.
Oh, to be clear: fuck that stance. The whole sentiment around "Oh, well you voted for Trump to oppress you, so you deserve to be oppressed" is gross. I certainly hope people who voted for these policies learn, and to that end, I moderate !leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world, but short of the leopards turning on themselves and getting their own faces eaten, I think we need to equally adamantly support the rights of these people who did vote for their own oppression. (Moreover, those who assume someone voted for this or failed to vote just because they're from a certain state is something I've actually seen, and that's just asinine.)
That said, comparing OB-GYNs who studied to help women who are now being thrust into this dilemma to camp guards who – I cannot emphasize this enough – volunteered to be there with the express and sole purpose of imprisoning and killing marginalized groups such as Jews is not at all comparable and demonstrates an extreme degree of black-and-white thinking.