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.
But that is the explicit threat. That is what law makers are saying they are setting as precedent.
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.
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.
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