• the_toast_is_gone@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    That calculation can change at any time. Since every state with an abortion ban allows for emergency abortions, federal law requires that they be available, and no doctors have been prosecuted for performing an emergency abortion, there is no logical reason to believe this will happen. However, there is now a significant risk of someone suing the hospital if a woman becomes injured or dies. When they realize they can make more money by following the law, this problem will go away.

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      8 hours ago

      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.

      • the_toast_is_gone@lemmy.world
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        4 hours ago

        A) These kinds of calculations change all the time. That’s why we have other companies that hire and fire people constantly or make other seemingly absurd decisions - the cost and benefit calculations change. There’s more money to be made in providing early deliveries, like one doctor said they would, than there is in sending patients (customers) on their way with no treatment and getting sued for it. Based on the hundreds of abortions that have happened in Missouri since the ban clearly other doctors think this is true.

        B) Allowing abortion in all cases would be a fallacious and nightmarish way to handwave human life as expendable in the name of bodily autonomy.

        You don’t want to kill people unnecessarily, do you? That would make you so callous as to be inhumane.