re: #176 Nerdy Fish

Tangential to the religious aspect of your post, with which I agree wholeheartedly (as you know), but you just know the doctors the state will get on their payroll to review these decisions will “coincidentally” all agree that abortion is never a life-saving treatment, and that women who present with life-threatening complications to their pregnancies should just be left to die. And they don’t have to actually convict a doctor under the statute to achieve the intended effect; just bringing a court case, dragging it out as long as possible, and making an example out of them will do.

That’s the unspoken truth of these “exceptions”: The criteria to satisfy them is subjective and not objective, there are no clear requirements but instead a doctor gambling that the state will agree with them when the dust has settled and no guarantee that the state will decide to make an “example” out of them. Hence why hospital lawyers, whose jobs are dependent largely upon assuming the worst case scenarios and acting to avoid them, are the ones really saying “Don’t touch them, turn them away” when a pregnant patient shows up in the ER.