
Ok then, lets not talk in hypotheticals. What about the 13 year old girl in Mississippi who lawmakers forced her to carry to term after she was raped? What about the multiple women in Texas who went septic and died because of mid-to-late term pregnancy complications that wouldn’t have taken their lives if they’d been given an abortion? What’s your opinion on these real life cases?
I don’t know what “all” includes, it’s vague and I’d appreciate naming specific cases. Because for instance if it was Naveah Crain, she died because of severe medical malpractice. She was first misdiagnosed with strep throat while septic, and then was not admitted to the hospital while showing signs of sepsis. It was misreported as being due to an abortion ban.
She’s one of the women, yes. I am also talking about Porsha Ngumezi, Tierra Walker, Josseli Barnica, Yeniifer Alvarez-Estrada Glick, Amber Thurman, Candi Miller, Taysha Wilkinson-Sobieski, and Ciji Graham. Altogether that is nine women, and these are just the nine I can remember off the dome.
And even then, the laws are so vaguely worded that physicians and doctors will refuse to do the treatment because lawmakers can decide the mother’s conditions wasn’t life-threatening enough. This is definitely an issue in states like Louisiana, Idaho, and some others I can’t remember. And THEN there’s Texas, Kentucky, and Tennessee, who require the physician be ARRESTED AND CHARGED first and then plead their defense in trial. Like be so fr
Well, yes, I agree that is blatant malpractice. Like, yeah, she is a victim of malpractice. The abortion bans certainly helped, because they’re WHY the malpractice came anyway. The treatment for pre-eclampsia is the removal (or birth) of the fetus, and at 20 weeks and not to term, her physicians refused to treat her. Mrs. Walker REPEATEDLY said she did not feel she would survive the pregnancy, and she requested, in numerous occasions, an abortion despite her pregnancy being a WANTED pregnancy.
The major problem is that at 20 weeks, the texas legislature would treat her treatment as an abortion. And as we’ve established, the procedure in texas is arrest and charge first, and then prove defense in court; a complete and utter betrayal to the rule of “innocent until proven guilty”. I’m begging you to use your brain as to why the malpractice occurred.
Yea, I agree. They didn’t treat her for anything though because they insisted nothing was wrong with her. An early delivery would also be treatment like you said, and wouldn’t even risk being considered anything close to an abortion under state law, and they didn’t do that either.
They insisted nothing was wrong with her because her treatment was considered an abortion. There is no such thing as an early delivery at 20 weeks. (Refresher; full term is 40 weeks, the threshold to survive is 23 weeks, RARE cases of 22 weeks surviving). So by texas law, an “early birth” at 20 weeks IS an abortion.
That’s not the procedure in Texas. The procedure in Texas is abortion is permitted within reasonable medical judgement by the physician. No doctor has been charged with performing or attempting to perform in abortion in Texas in spite of the over 50 abortions that happen there annually.
No it isn’t because Texas abortion defines a procedure to halt pregnancy without the intent of leading to a live birth. An early delivery would not be an abortion even at 20 weeks, it might pass away after, which is definitely tragic, but that wouldn’t be an abortion. But you could’ve also done an abortion which would be legal since she had pre eclampsia
Arkansas Code § 5-61-303 (Act 387) explicitly excludes actions performed to remove a dead unborn child resulting from a spontaneous abortion/miscarriage. Oklahoma Stat. tit. 63, § 1-745.13 and associated Attorney General guidance similarly exclude the removal of a dead unborn child who died naturally in utero.
That doesn’t mean vitals have to crash. If there’s a condition that can only be treated with an abortion then it’ll be treated with an abortion, that doesn’t mean vitals have to immediately be crashing, it’s up to the doctors good faith medical judgement on whether the woman needs an abortion.
You’re going strictly by law and not by practice. Doctors will not, for fear of being charged with a felony, give care until the fetus has no cardiac activity or the mother is on the verge of death. It is literally documented. I’m now done arguing with someone who will not do their own research.
Yes I’m going by the law because if a doctor won’t give life saving treatment permitted by law that’s medical malpractice. That is why the doctors who fail these women (like Dr Andrew Davis, Dr Ali Osman and Dr William Hawkins) are sanctioned by medical boards, as they should be.
Unless it’s actively being caused by someone like an attacker, a miscarriage isn’t manslaughter. Not all natural deaths are manslaughter. But yes someone causing the miscarriage of a pregnant woman is murder or manslaughter at the very least. That’s the law in pro choice states as well.