It’s either provide the treatment, or people become gravely injured or die. She quite nearly died as a result of the mistreatment. We can’t predict juries, but I haven’t seen any cases of doctors being arrested and convicted of providing an abortion.
But the law explicitly says there’s an exception for emergencies and there’s no guarantee that they’ll be charged. In fact, there have been hundreds of abortions in Missouri alone since the ban. I wasn’t able to find any instances of a doctor being criminally charged under these laws, but if you find one, it’s in an extreme minority.
There’s no guarantee they will be charged is not the same as there is a guarantee they will not be charged. And that is the issue, the hospitals were directly threatened by republicans with jail time, and contradictory statements, as proof when she reached out to get clarification from the governor even he noped out when it mattered. Also remember that the doctors do not run the hospital, administrators and bean counters do.
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.
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?
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.
It’s either provide the treatment, or people become gravely injured or die. She quite nearly died as a result of the mistreatment. We can’t predict juries, but I haven’t seen any cases of doctors being arrested and convicted of providing an abortion.
But that is the explicit threat. That is what law makers are saying they are setting as precedent.
But the law explicitly says there’s an exception for emergencies and there’s no guarantee that they’ll be charged. In fact, there have been hundreds of abortions in Missouri alone since the ban. I wasn’t able to find any instances of a doctor being criminally charged under these laws, but if you find one, it’s in an extreme minority.
There’s no guarantee they will be charged is not the same as there is a guarantee they will not be charged. And that is the issue, the hospitals were directly threatened by republicans with jail time, and contradictory statements, as proof when she reached out to get clarification from the governor even he noped out when it mattered. Also remember that the doctors do not run the hospital, administrators and bean counters do.
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.
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?
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.