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Texas Threatens Doctors After Judge Says Woman Can Get Emergency Abortion
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I really hope they just ignore him. I understand there are significant risks and consequences here but at a certain point doing the right thing has to trump whatever possible negatives would come about from disobeying an unjust law.
Even if you did lose your medical license and paid a hefty fine I feel like you'd ultimately be fine. There's gotta be a doctor out there that would revel in the fact they'd be known as the kickass doctor that disobeyed Ken Paxton. I'm sure you could pivot into something else. Might even be happier and richer making a YouTube channel or TikTok clock or whatever it is the kids are doing these days.
I share your idealism, but I keep convincing myself that nobody is that brave.
We're in a real sorry state if hoping for the existence of one good doctor out of all the doctors can somehow be considered idealism
I don't know the law to well but I wonder what would happen if the mother tried to place attempted murder charges against the attorney general using the precident that a judge already ruled it to be a legal health procedure. Would a judge not be able to place him in prison denying bond because the threat made is still possible?
I hear rumours that losing your medical licence only really applies to that one state, over there. Image if all the doctors lose their licence, just in those states that don't allow abortion. Would no doctors at all make them rethink their stance?
That’s a lot to ask of the doctor and hospital. They have a lot to lose. While I agree it would be very satisfying as an external viewer, I also don’t want to see any of them catchconsequences for doing the right thing. Buying her an airline ticket to civilization would be cheaper, even if you included the Uber to the hospital
Worse, the Texas Supreme court just took his side.
We've got to stomp these #christofascists back into the gutterchurches they spring up from.
That really got me good.