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The victims are the disenfranchised minorities. The doctors (sometimes) are intimidated into compliance because they don't want to be held liable.

Texas has some of the most lax gun laws... just saying

So you're saying all of the OB/Gyns in abortion ban states should give up their license and likely go to prison thereby leaving all pregnant patients without care?

Because that's what you're proposing here, functionally. OB/Gyns are already leaving these states in droves because of these bans and it's leaving massive maternal care deserts across the South. There are already millions of people living in areas without OB/Gyn care within 100 miles drive, and now critical access rural hospitals are closing. Also, OB/delivery services are the first thing on the chopping block for budget cuts at struggling hospitals because 41% of births in America are covered by Medicaid. This number is substantially higher in the areas that are also affected by healthcare deserts meaning that up to 90-100% of births might be covered by Medicaid in some of these rural hospitals. With the Medicaid cuts, that means that the hospital loses thousands of dollars for every baby born there when they're already deep in the red.

Your "all or nothing" approach to what physicians should be doing leaves absolutely no consideration for the secondary effects of such actions. If providing one abortion meant the complete loss of an OB/Gyn physician to a community, the tradeoff simply is not worth it. There are so many things that can go wrong with pregnancy and delivery that are not fixable with abortion (and what if it's a wanted pregnancy?). Depriving communities of qualified physicians is a death sentence for many women that will then be unable to access the prenatal care that could have saved their life.

I was made to either move to Texas or lose my career.

I chose to lose my career.

Thanks. Is there a common way to de-apple such a link or did you have to search for the original article?

Just a different type of genocide.

Shouldn't that mean their semators would be blue?

And about to get even worse.

American conservatives are batsit insane. Even conservatives in other developed countries won't even subvert the law on allowing abortion on the grounds of health and safety of both the child and mother.

For physicians in these total ban states, defying the law would mean the loss of everything they have. Under your edict here, OB/Gyns would lose their license no matter what. They'd lose their license under your plan if they refused to provide abortion care and they'd lose their license and face prison time if they did provide abortion care.

Yes, it means that the women who need abortion care are going to suffer immensely, but there's already a dire shortage of OB/Gyn physicians, so losing more of them to prison is not going to help all the women that need regular obstetric or gynecologic care and the women who need abortion care.

This is the definition of "between a rock and a hard place" and there's maternal mortality on both sides because when women can't get prenatal care, it drastically increases the chances of them dying from pregnancy or delivery complications.

2A for all... Texas loves their guns

In other words: Fuck around and find out.

Not "Oh, well"

Which state is next? Yours?

Ah... No money for anything but oil subsidies. Must be nice not having any social problems in your state.

Edit: their state.