The new legislation, prompted by ProPublica’s reporting, comes after 111 Texas doctors signed a public letter urging that the ban be changed because it “does not allow us as medical professionals to do our jobs.”
The new legislation, prompted by ProPublica’s reporting, comes after 111 Texas doctors signed a public letter urging that the ban be changed because it “does not allow us as medical professionals to do our jobs.”
doctors are supposed to be neutral and treat regardless of sides
You are 100% correct. Where they do have a choice is where to practice. Leave Texas and let them figure it out by themselves. Doctors are not obligated to work in Texas so bleeding the state dry (no pun intended) of medical professionals, it is a strategy the medical field could employ if they choose to do so. Doctors and nurses leaving in droves sends a message. Stating a lack of working conditions due to state enforced measures is a very valid excuse imho.
Never going to happen, I know…
But they’re not. As demonstrated by the two deaths.
The problem is that right now if they choose to save one patient, they will have their licenses yanked and thrown in jail, which means that many other women would suffer due to a lack of services. These doctors know that their decisions led to the deaths of these two women. But they also know that having their own licenses yanked would do nothing but probably lead to the deaths of several more.
For doctors, it’s basically a Sophie’s Choice.
not really
again if enough doctors stood up
licenses are pieces of paper representing their years of training and losing it will not make them not doctors does not work that way
we are enough people that change could occur
what if Martin Luther King Jr had decided that his freedom from jail meant more than the cause?
Without those pieces of paper, they cannot practice medicine.
Doctors are allowed to decline patients.