This is the point. This is why the AG in Idaho Indiana where that 10 year old child fled to get her needed abortion care is attacking the doctor who treated her. Make every doctor too scared of losing everything to help a dying woman. How is this fucken pro-life? Can we admit now it is all about controlling the pregnant person! This is about denying equality and body autonomy to a class of people that the males think they should have control over. I am sick of the contradictions in laws and their statement of being “pro-life” while actively undermining that life. Time to call things what they are. Time to strip the veneer off what these people really want, complete control over people with a uterus. It is about a dual system of who can have sex and enjoy sexual pleasure. it is totally about making women a incubator for a man’s issue / future offspring. Prove me wrong if you can! Hugs
Doctors are being prohibited from treating patients with complications, the Texas Medical Association alleges.
The Texas State Capitol is pictured at dusk on Wednesday, June 8, 2022, in Austin. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a lawsuit against the federal government over the Biden administration’s guidance that federal rules require hospitals to provide abortions if the procedure is necessary to save a mother’s life.(Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer)
AUSTIN — The Texas Medical Association wants regulators to step in after hospitals reportedly refused to treat patients with serious pregnancy complications for fear of violating the state’s abortion ban.
In a letter sent Wednesday to the Texas Medical Board, the association said it received complaints that hospitals, their administrators and their lawyers may be prohibiting physicians from providing medically appropriate care to women with ectopic pregnancies and other complications.
It asks the board to “swiftly act to prevent any wrongful intrusion into the practice of medicine.”
The letter from the state’s most prominent physicians group offers an early sign of how restrictive abortion laws have hindered medical care for pregnant Texans.
Since last September, Texas physicians have already had to contend with a law known as Senate Bill 8 that empowers citizens to sue anyone who “aids or abets” in an abortion after six weeks of pregnancy.
While there’s a narrow exception in both laws to save the life of a pregnant patient, there’s been confusion about who qualifies.
The association, which declined to comment, does not identify any hospital by name in the letter, but it cites several examples.
One in Central Texas allegedly told a physician not to treat an ectopic pregnancy until it ruptured, which puts patient health at serious risk, according to the letter. An ectopic pregnancy, when a fertilized egg attaches outside of the uterus, is not viable.
“Delayed or prevented care in this scenario creates a substantial risk for the patient’s future reproductive ability and poses serious risk to the patient’s immediate physical wellbeing,” the letter said.
Two other hospitals may be directing doctors to send pregnant patients home to “expel the fetus” when their water breaks too early, instead of treating them at the hospital, the letter said.
In those situations, physicians have said that patients are at risk of infection.
The alleged interference not only puts patients at risk of serious injury, the letter said, but also could expose doctors to lawsuits or threaten their medical licenses. It may violate Texas’ prohibition on the corporate practice of medicine, which the board has the power to enforce, the letter said.
The Texas Medical Board confirmed it received the association’s letter, but a spokesperson said the board “cannot confirm or deny any specific complaint as they are considered confidential under statute.”
Republicans have been saying this wouldn’t happen. But it is happening.
“One in Central Texas allegedly told a physician not to treat an ectopic pregnancy until it ruptured, which puts patient health at serious risk, according to the letter.” https://t.co/sincQIpF2b
Yep. It ends up a choice for the doctor to save a patient, lose their license, get charged with murder, and get sued into the poor house. Or let woman die. The rethuglicunts will have to look over their shoulders when one of these guys wives dies.
Not basically. Exactly. That’s exactly what’s happening. Death must be imminent not something a few weeks away but unavoidable without intervention. And even those stories down here are being downplayed so they still think of it as liberal propaganda.
Texas Gov Abbott killed hundred through incompetence, death by freezing when his lack of leadership, his lack of planning, his inaction, made public power fail in the winter. Now, he wants to continue his aim to kill more people in Texas. Make it difficult to treat women. Kill women through ignorance, greed, bigotry. More dying this summer from continued lack of fixing the broken Texas public power grid – Abbott has done nothing for that. Nothing. Let the people die.
I’m thinking that they’re heading into cult territory. Shared suffering brings people close and since they already think their problems are caused by everyone but their dear leaders this may be what the GOP in Texas really wants.
I wonder how many MAGA women with non-viable conditions like ectopic pregnancy or hydatidiform pregnancy are willing to die for this law? They think that the only effect will be on slutty liberal women who are too poor or isolated to cross a state border.
They will think of themselves as the exception and continue to be “pro-life.” I know too many o them. When they see the story of the 10 year old rape victim they see that she should be able to get an abortion but that doesn’t lead them to think that the entire law is wrong. They are too brainwashed to make such logical connections.
back in 2007 the Atlantic ran an article called ‘The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion’. It covered the fact that many women against abortion do have abortions and are able to fritter away the moral hypocrisy as they see it as a moral choice for themselves.
White supremacists, who are numerous in Texas, should worry that more and more non-white babies are born due to Republican efforts. Whites are a shrinking minority now. Many factors contribute. Pollution from fracking chemicals is causing infertility in men who are constantly exposed to pollution, and white men are exposed more since they are in the fracking business, so white replacement is happening, faster and faster due to Republicans.
White supremacists seem to always be the shining examples of white stupidity. Their grasp of basic logic is famously weak. none of these idiotic laws will change the genetic composition of the human race in this country or anywhere else.
Taking an example from dog breeding in particular, veterinary studies have concluded that purebreds may have [not necessarily always have] more issues due to having had some traits reinforced by breeding. If that is true, then mongrelization of the population should improve the species simply by diluting bad genes [bad genes, being recessive, naturally reduce viability over time, hopefully before propagation]. Thus white supremacists may be a dying breed or subset, especially since intermarriage with non-whites is increasing and may be improving the population by admixture of new genes.
Republican Senator Josh Hawley joins Sean Hannity on Fox News to talk about Professor Khiara Bridges saying ‘person with the capacity for pregnancy.” The Majority Report crew discuss how Bridges is right and how the Right would rather accuse liberals and professors of having a muddled message and being unable to answer a question.
Ben Shapiro says suicide rates for LGBTQ people have a wide disparity even when living in an area that is highly tolerant compared to cis people. The Majority Report crew discuss Shapiro’s religious fundamentalism and flawed argument that only women can get pregnant. The MR crew mentions how not all women can get pregnant and that not all people who get pregnant are women. The MR crew also talk about how the Right’s constant stigmatization of trans lives only increases suicide and violence against trans people.
Three important bills passed the House of Representatives this week without the help of Republicans. By and large, Republicans votes against a bill to provide access to healthcare through the VA system for troops exposed to toxins, a bill to report problems with neo-Nazis in the military, and a bill to create an amber alert system for law enforcement to notify communities of a mass shooting.
Great video that points out all the bills that would help people that the republicans are obstructing just to obstruct, just to be anti-anything to help the country. All hoping it will hurt Biden enough that people will vote for them. The republicans don’t govern, they break government and then cry about it not working. Hugs
Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell just blasted Republican Jim Jordan for his tweet falsely claiming the story about a 10-year-old rape victim was a lie.
California Governor Gavin Newsom sat down with Fox LA’s Elex Michaelson and called out Republican governors including Ron DeSantis, Greg Abbott and others for their despicable actions taking away the rights of Americans. Harry Sisson presents.
New Meidas Contributor Tennessee Brando discusses the impact of the January 6 hearings and the need for continued perseverance in exposing the radical right-wing criminality as they continue to try and deflect and distract. Welcome to the Meidas family Tennessee Brando!
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