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Yeah but I can't blame the doctors for refusing, when in doubt a right wing jury without medical training will decide if it was an emergency or not, and your freedom depends on their verdict.
Doctors swear an oath, "first, do no harm." So yes we can blame the doctors!
Doctors are supposed to behave ethically regardless of the law. This is not a new thing! Doctors providing appropriate treatment despite the law is a very fucking long tradition in medicine.
It isn't. Name one time that happened.
"Do no harm" doesn't mean "risk your livelihood and freedom to perform an operation that a patient can get elsewhere".
Just one? Sherwin Raymond: https://newrepublic.com/article/167633/roe-wade-abortion-doctors-dobbs-prison
...but doctors have been imprisoned or killed for treating the "enemy" since, well, doctors.
But that is the explicit threat. That is what law makers are saying they are setting as precedent.
There’s no guarantee they will be charged is not the same as there is a guarantee they will not be charged. And that is the issue, the hospitals were directly threatened by republicans with jail time, and contradictory statements, as proof when she reached out to get clarification from the governor even he noped out when it mattered. Also remember that the doctors do not run the hospital, administrators and bean counters do.
There only has to be the threat. Because as long as hospitals are afraid to perform abortions the republicans win… well “win” in this case. We are just people arguing could have should have, when the hospital doctors recommended it, but the hospital with their lawyers and the fact they have been doing this as a profession was not as convinced as you seem to be.
Besides, is your argument the hospital was out to kill this lady specifically?