• the_toast_is_gone@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    Nobody has been charged so far. If they wanted to make an example of someone, it would have made far more sense to do it around when the law was passed. There’s no Machiavellian scheme trying to trap doctors in unwinnable situations, this was an obvious case of medical error. Hundreds of thousands of other similar errors severe enough to cause harm or death happen every year.

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      19 hours ago

      There only has to be the threat. Because as long as hospitals are afraid to perform abortions the republicans win… well “win” in this case. We are just people arguing could have should have, when the hospital doctors recommended it, but the hospital with their lawyers and the fact they have been doing this as a profession was not as convinced as you seem to be.

      Besides, is your argument the hospital was out to kill this lady specifically?

      • the_toast_is_gone@lemmy.world
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        18 hours ago

        Any threat is entirely imagined. Nobody has been prosecuted for this. The law states it is legal. My argument is that either the hospital misunderstood the law in an honest error or they were more interested in covering their own butts than treating a patient in obvious need - in either case, they were wrong and should be held responsible.