Nobody has been prosecuted for this since Dobbs. Your alleged legal threat is barely even fiction. The lawyers were wrong in this case, and those who judged it legally acceptable to provide emergency abortions in ban states are right. You are ignoring these obvious facts to hold onto the nonsensical belief that these laws are unjust.
Let’s leave aside that a surgeon cannot operate without the infrastructure a hospital makes available to them in most cases. OR space, equipment, scrub nurses etc. If hospital management decides the risk is too high, the surgeon/obstetrician’s hand are tied.
Let’s say that’s not an issue. Would you risk your career and livelihood in this scenario? It’s easy to talk a big game but the vast majority of people would not. I can’t blame them. I blame the legislators and those that elected them.
Hospital management was 100% wrong in this case, but sure, let’s put that aside. Yes, 10,000 times out of 10,000, I would prematurely deliver a baby if it was necessary and I had the means to do so, or do any other procedure that wasn’t meant to explicitly kill the fetus. If it was already dead, there would be no distinction there. If I had no moral compunction with abortion in general, 10,000 times out of 10,000, I would perform an abortion if I believed it medically necessary.
Nobody has been prosecuted for this since Dobbs. Your alleged legal threat is barely even fiction. The lawyers were wrong in this case, and those who judged it legally acceptable to provide emergency abortions in ban states are right. You are ignoring these obvious facts to hold onto the nonsensical belief that these laws are unjust.
Let’s leave aside that a surgeon cannot operate without the infrastructure a hospital makes available to them in most cases. OR space, equipment, scrub nurses etc. If hospital management decides the risk is too high, the surgeon/obstetrician’s hand are tied.
Let’s say that’s not an issue. Would you risk your career and livelihood in this scenario? It’s easy to talk a big game but the vast majority of people would not. I can’t blame them. I blame the legislators and those that elected them.
Hospital management was 100% wrong in this case, but sure, let’s put that aside. Yes, 10,000 times out of 10,000, I would prematurely deliver a baby if it was necessary and I had the means to do so, or do any other procedure that wasn’t meant to explicitly kill the fetus. If it was already dead, there would be no distinction there. If I had no moral compunction with abortion in general, 10,000 times out of 10,000, I would perform an abortion if I believed it medically necessary.