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And you don’t seem to be listening to people who are telling you that the law doesn’t have to be draconian to cost people their lives.

If some number of hospitals conclude that the cost of letting people die and settling wrongful death cases is lower than the cost of defending patients’ rights to an abortion under their specific circumstances, then those hospitals will set policy that prohibits providing those abortions. Because they are profit-driven, not charities (a separate but related problem)

I will say it again: if the cost is less than the profit, it’s not a punishment, it’s a business expense. Put another way, if actually breaking law A costs less than defending accusations of breaking law B, they will break law A every time.

I’m really tired of trying to explain to people that laws and politics do not exist in a bubble.

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A) You hope it will. In the meantime, we continue to see cases of people being in danger or even dying.

B) Good for you that you can hand-wave away other people’s lives and safety as just a temporary bump in the road.

Your callousness is disconcerting, to say the least, and I’m done with this conversation now because I can’t teach you to stop looking at people as statistics.

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