Leilah Zahedi-Spung, a high-risk obstetrician in Chattanooga, Tenn., recently saw a pregnant patient with rising blood pressure who the doctor believed could be facing a serious health emergency.
More than 700 medical professionals, including obstetricians and emergency room doctors, published a letter to the Tennessee General Assembly this week asking it to revise the state’s law, saying it “criminalizes physicians for providing lifesaving care.” Idaho and North Dakota also have laws that criminalize all abortions and provide doctors with defenses they can use in court. Ohio lawmakers are set to debate a similar law in the coming weeks. In other states, doctors can’t be charged with a crime for ending a pregnancy as long as it was to save the life of the mother, although some providers say it can still be hard to know how dire a situation must be to qualify.
Chloe Akers, a criminal defense attorney based in Knoxville, Tenn., read the law after Roe fell and was surprised to see it contained no exceptions, only defenses that doctors could use after the fact. She founded a nonprofit Standing Together Tennessee and began giving seminars to doctors and others about the law.
“As time goes on and we see that no one is being prosecuted for doing abortions, I think this fear becomes very unsubstantiated,” Mr. Linton said.
Good
So you are saying doctors can’t distinguish between an emergency and an abortion of pro-choice- guess more than ever a guide for doctors -15 weeks- with exceptions -vote red in November- stop barbaric nonsense of Democrats- -0 weeks- until birth abortions. -voting matters-
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This is one reason that every woman, husband, & father should vote blue this November! Women who are starting or adding to families deserve the very best healthcare available to them! In a crisis their doctors should be focused on saving them instead of checking with lawyers!
But yet they have no qualms about removing healthy tissue from a child? Doctors have been screwed up for a while. We need nurse review boards to oversee medical licensing for physicians.
FIRST, DO NO HARM.
Ladies of America- please vote for your reproductive & healthcare rights!! It’s time to rally!!!
There is no medical reason for an abortion that birth won’t cure
They grew too comfortable with butchering the unborn up to 9 months. The rational limitations don't allow them to kill as many, so their cash flow has been hit. They are an evil bunch.
Let's hope women really show up to vote. Herschel Walker supports a nationwide ban all while having paid for an abortion. Totally fine. Meanwhile, women lose the option to control our bodies. Rape, incest, life of the mother...cope, but Herschel's situation can slide?🤔
Who could’ve possibly predicted this unintended consequence
Women's healthcare is between the patient and her doctor: Not judges, not politicians, not lawyers, not religious leaders and not the news media.
So basically doing their jobs and being professionals vs 'providing' Catholic Mickey Mouse healthcare.