Written in response to a ProPublica investigation last year, Senate Bill 31, called The Life of the Mother Act, represents a remarkable turn among the Republican lawmakers who were the original supporters of the ban. For the first time in four years, they acknowledged that women were being denied care because of confusion about the law and took action to clarify its terms.
AND NOW U KNOW WHY I STATED U HAVE NO IDEA....AND STFU
ZING....RIGHT OVER YOUR HEAD....THIS ABOUT DEATH/SEVERE INJURY BECAUSE OF THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION RELIGIOUS RIGHT INTERFERENCE WITH A DOCTOR/PATIENT RELATIONSHIP......IF MEN HAD TO ENDURE THIS FIASCO....IT WOULDN'T HAVE TAKEN FOUR YEARS TO RECTIFY THE RIGID AND WRONGHEADED LAW......IT WAS NO ONE ELSE'S BUSINESS BUT THE DOCTOR/WOMEN'S DECISION....GOT IT???
homeagain wrote: ZING....RIGHT OVER YOUR HEAD....THIS ABOUT DEATH/SEVERE INJURY BECAUSE OF THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION RELIGIOUS RIGHT INTERFERENCE WITH A DOCTOR/PATIENT RELATIONSHIP......IF MEN HAD TO ENDURE THIS FIASCO....IT WOULDN'T HAVE TAKEN FOUR YEARS TO RECTIFY THE RIGID AND WRONGHEADED LAW......IT WAS NO ONE ELSE'S BUSINESS BUT THE DOCTOR/WOMEN'S DECISION....GOT IT???
So should women also have the right to drown their infants?
Or do you just support post birth abortions in the same week?
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
Written in response to a ProPublica investigation last year, Senate Bill 31, called The Life of the Mother Act, represents a remarkable turn among the Republican lawmakers who were the original supporters of the ban. For the first time in four years, they acknowledged that women were being denied care because of confusion about the law and took action to clarify its terms.
AND NOW U KNOW WHY I STATED U HAVE NO IDEA....AND STFU
Part of the Legislature’s
choice is to permit a significant exception to the general prohibition
against abortion. And it has delegated to the medical—rather than the
legal—profession the decision about when a woman’s medical
circumstances warrant this exception. The law allows an abortion
when:
2
in the exercise of reasonable medical judgment, the
pregnant female . . . has a life-threatening physical
condition aggravated by, caused by, or arising from a
pregnancy that places the female at risk of death or poses
a serious risk of substantial impairment of a major bodily
function unless the abortion is performed or induced.
TEX. H EALTH & SAFETY C ODE § 170A.002(b)(2).
Only a doctor can exercise “reasonable medical judgment”1 to
decide whether a pregnant woman “has a life-threatening physical
condition,” making an abortion necessary to save her life or to save her
from “a serious risk of substantial impairment of a major bodily
function.” If a doctor, using her “reasonable medical judgment,” decides
that a pregnant woman has such a condition, then the exception applies,
and Texas law does not prohibit the abortion.
This opinion was delivered 11 December, 2023. The legislature left the decision to the doctors, exercising their "reasonable medical judgement" to decide whether their patient's condition required intervention to terminate the pregnancy. If the doctor, in their "reasonable medical opinion" decided a medically induced abortion was necessary then the exemption applied. Period, punct, end of discussion. That is about as far away from ambiguity as it gets - the doctor decides based on standards of care, the "reasonable opinion" that governs the medical care of patients under a doctor's care. So you STFU HA, the women are suffering because the no-limits crowd is spreading disinformation for political profit. No less than the highest court in the State of Texas has said if the doctor says it's necessary, then it's necessary and the exemption provided for in the law applies.
As long as the doctor is making a medical, and not a philosophical, decision, they have no exposure to penalty. That's what the Texas law says. Not my opinion, the Supreme Court of Texas' unanimous opinion.
AND U R IN THE MEDICAL ARENA HOW?.......I BELIEVE THE THREAT OF LOSING A LICENSE (MEDICAL) IS STRONG INDICATOR OF HOW DECISIONS R MADE IN THE MEDICAL ARENA...I BELIEVE WORDS HAVE CONSEQUENCES....AND THE ACTIONS R BASED ON THE INTERPRETATION OF THE LAW.....THE ARTICLE,WHICH BY THE WAY, IS NOT CORP OWNED PAPER DID EXTENSIVE REPORTING/RESEARCH....IF THERE WAS NO PROBLEM, WHY THEN DECIDE TO AMEND THE LAW...BECAUSE IT WAS POORLY THOUGHT OUT AND WAS MORALLY WRONG.
I AM ON AN ETHICS COMMITTEE AT OUR CITY'S HOSPITAL....DO NOT EVEN BEGIN TO TELL ME THAT THERE IS NOT A PROBLEM AND THE LAW WAS/IS CORRECTLY IMPLEMENTED.
I AM PRESENT TO HEAR FEMALE DOCTORS,FEMALE P.A. AND FEMALE N.P. STORIES OF THEIR PATIENTS CONDITIONS BEING DISMISSED BY MALE CONSTITUENTS AND THE FRUSTRATION THEY HAVE TO CONTEND WITH TO ADVOCATE FOR THEIR PATIENT...THERE IS AN ESTABLISHED HIERARCHY AND IT IS WELL KNOWN.
YOUR RELIANCE ON THE WRITTEN WORD OF THE LAW (THAT U QUOTE) DOES NOT SQUARE WITH THE REALITY ON THE GROUND....SO DO NOT PREACH TO ME THAT I AM BUYING INTO
"BOGUS" PUBLICATIONS AND FAKE NEWS.....
HERE IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF ''THE LAW' NOT BEING THE FINAL WORD......M.A.I.D. IS A LAW IN COLORADO, IF I WISH TO EXERCISE IT, BECAUSE U HAVE 6 MO OR LESS TO LIVE....GOOD LUCK WITH THAT, WHILE U R IN EXCRUCIATING PAIN AND WOULD LIKE THE LAW TO BE ENFORCED,
HERE ON THE WESTERN SLOPE (MONTROSE AND SURROUNDING AREAS) THE DOCTORS WILL NOT ABIDE BY THE LAW....U R REFERRED OUT TO THE FRONT RANGE....TRAVELING HUNDREDS OF MILES IN A "ACTIVELY DYING CONDITION" TO UTILIZE THE LAW THAT IS YOUR RIGHT. (BY LAW)......SO-O-O, YES I SAY AGAIN STFU