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I've just read through the text of Georgia's LIFE act and see nothing therein that makes D&C illegal. Can you help point me to what I'm missing? If doctors failed to perform a legal, medically-necessary procedure in a timely fashion (as certainly seems to be the case here), that sounds like medical malpractice to me.Two Georgia women died due to lack of care. One woman had sepsis. She needed a D&C but it is illegal. She waited 20 hours until she was close enough to death to be allowed treatment but it was too late.
If the risk is medical malpractice (which nobody is going to get you on in the situation Georgia doctors are in) or jail for murder which one are you going to be more afraid of?I've just read through the text of Georgia's LIFE act and see nothing therein that makes D&C illegal. Can you help point me to what I'm missing? If doctors failed to perform a legal, medically-necessary procedure in a timely fashion (as certainly seems to be the case here), that sounds like medical malpractice to me.
Because law is vaguely worded, on purpose, so doctors really are afraid. They could lose their license or go to jail. Because D&C is used for abortion it could be interpreted as falling under ban.I've just read through the text of Georgia's LIFE act and see nothing therein that makes D&C illegal. Can you help point me to what I'm missing? If doctors failed to perform a legal, medically-necessary procedure in a timely fashion (as certainly seems to be the case here), that sounds like medical malpractice to me.
If the risk is medical malpractice (which nobody is going to get you on in the situation Georgia doctors are in) or jail for murder which one are you going to be more afraid of?
Because law is vaguely worded, on purpose, so doctors really are afraid. They could lose their license or go to jail. Because D&C is used for abortion it could be interpreted as falling under ban.
Essentially, doctors in these states are making medical decisions out of fear.
Good point.Again, having read the act, the law specifically (not at all vaguely) defines a "detectable human heartbeat" as the sole determining factor of whether an unborn child would be considered a living human, so the act wouldn't have even been relevant in the situation mentioned (since the abortion had already been completed). So "jail for murder" would not have been a consideration.
Fear is often based in ignorance, and this is no exception.
Let me tel you about the case of my grandson. After conception, the fertilized egg split in two and at her first ultrasound my daughter-in-law was told she was carrying twins. Unfortunately, a later ultrasound revealed that the splitting of the egg had been imperfect and that one fetus was nonviable. The skull was not formed correctly, the brain was partially outside of it, and there were numerous other defects. It probably would not survive to birth and, when it died, a phenomenon known as twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome would likely kill the healthy twin. My son and his wife, both devout Christians, had to make the decision as to whether to let nature take its course and almost certainly loose both twins, or to have a procedure done to intentionally sever the umbilical cord to the deformed twin. They chose life and watched on the monitor as the cord was cut and one beating heart slowly died. Today we have a healthy, brilliant and talented grandson who this year will graduate high school. They celebrate the birthday of both twins every year. How is a choice like that to be made by anyone but the parents?
That would be unimaginably difficult. Fortunately, the text of the LIFE act also has very clear definitions of and provisions permitting abortions of "medically futile" pregnancies, permitting parents to make heart-rending decisions such as this.Let me tel you about the case of my grandson. After conception, the fertilized egg split in two and at her first ultrasound my daughter-in-law was told she was carrying twins. Unfortunately, a later ultrasound revealed that the splitting of the egg had been imperfect and that one fetus was nonviable. The skull was not formed correctly, the brain was partially outside of it, and there were numerous other defects. It probably would not survive to birth and, when it died, a phenomenon known as twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome would likely kill the healthy twin. My son and his wife, both devout Christians, had to make the decision as to whether to let nature take its course and almost certainly loose both twins, or to have a procedure done to intentionally sever the umbilical cord to the deformed twin. They chose life and watched on the monitor as the cord was cut and one beating heart slowly died. Today we have a healthy, brilliant and talented grandson who this year will graduate high school. They celebrate the birthday of both twins every year. How is a choice like that to be made by anyone but the parents?
Not comparable. No one is trying to ban all guns. And firearms are not a necessary medical procedure.Not a victory. A tragedy. A woman lost her life, and a family lost their mother. I would be shocked to find any organization presenting this story as a positive. There is nothing good in this story.
I do wonder--if a firearms ban were passed, and afterward someone attempted to controvert said ban by building their own gun, and accidentally killed themself in the process, would we blame the law?
It's not hard to find people that want precisely that. Here's one. https://advocate.jbu.edu/2023/02/09/please-just-ban-guns-alreadyNo one is trying to ban all guns.
Georgia law permits medically necessary abortions. Have you read the text of the statute yet?And firearms are not a necessary medical procedure.
Theoretically. But wording is so vague and penalties so severe doctors and hospitals are afraid to do procedures. And women have died.It's not hard to find people that want precisely that. Here's one. https://advocate.jbu.edu/2023/02/09/please-just-ban-guns-already
Georgia law permits medically necessary abortions. Have you read the text of the statute yet?
Attorneys general of three states have sued FDA to block access to medication abortion for young women. They say states have compelling interest in teens giving birth. Births have not significantly increased since abortion was outlawed because young woman still have access to abortion medication. They claim smaller population means less representation and resources for their states, hence state interest in forced birth.
Not making this up.
They want white babies.Seems like they should sue the border patrol to stop interdiction efforts, then. More immigrants would increase the population.
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Ironic you say that, since black babies are aborted at far higher rates than white.They want white babies.