Posted on Dec 15, 2023
Hypothetical situations or real-life medical tragedies? A judge weighs an Idaho abortion ban...
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An attorney for Idaho asked a judge on Thursday to throw out a lawsuit seeking clarity about the medical exemptions to the state’s broad abortion bans, saying it was based on hypothetical situations rather than current facts.
But an attorney for the four women and several physicians who sued says their claims aren’t hypothetical at all, but real-life tragedies happening in doctors’ offices and homes across the state.
Similar lawsuits are playing out around the nation, with some of them, like Idaho’s, brought by the Center for Reproductive Rights on behalf of doctors and pregnant people who were denied access to abortions while facing serious pregnancy complications.
But an attorney for the four women and several physicians who sued says their claims aren’t hypothetical at all, but real-life tragedies happening in doctors’ offices and homes across the state.
Similar lawsuits are playing out around the nation, with some of them, like Idaho’s, brought by the Center for Reproductive Rights on behalf of doctors and pregnant people who were denied access to abortions while facing serious pregnancy complications.
Hypothetical situations or real-life medical tragedies? A judge weighs an Idaho abortion ban...
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel good day Brother William, always informational and of the most interesting. Thanks for sharing, have a blessed day!
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Of the nine maternal fetal medicine specialists practicing in Idaho before the bans, four have already left the state and another intends to retire at the end of 2023, according to the lawsuit. Two rural Idaho hospitals have closed their labor-and-delivery centers, with one directly attributing the closure to physicians’ resignations over Idaho’s restrictive abortion bans.
“The health care system is being quite disrupted,” said Dr. Julie Lyons, a family physician and one of the doctors bringing the lawsuit. “It happens in my clinic, where there is fear among the nurses I work with about treating an ectopic pregnancy even though treating an ectopic is legal. But nobody believes that.”
Now it takes longer for patients to get treated, Lyons said, and medical costs are increasing because everyone is worried about being prosecuted.
“We’re over-ordering tests, over-ordering ultrasounds to try to protect ourselves,” Lyons said. “We don’t want to have any possible way that a doctor could be scrutinized and sent to jail.”
..."Of the nine maternal fetal medicine specialists practicing in Idaho before the bans, four have already left the state and another intends to retire at the end of 2023, according to the lawsuit. Two rural Idaho hospitals have closed their labor-and-delivery centers, with one directly attributing the closure to physicians’ resignations over Idaho’s restrictive abortion bans.
“The health care system is being quite disrupted,” said Dr. Julie Lyons, a family physician and one of the doctors bringing the lawsuit. “It happens in my clinic, where there is fear among the nurses I work with about treating an ectopic pregnancy even though treating an ectopic is legal. But nobody believes that.”
Now it takes longer for patients to get treated, Lyons said, and medical costs are increasing because everyone is worried about being prosecuted.
“We’re over-ordering tests, over-ordering ultrasounds to try to protect ourselves,” Lyons said. “We don’t want to have any possible way that a doctor could be scrutinized and sent to jail.”
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"Craig suggested that since they were no longer facing the pregnancy complications, they should be challenging the state’s law in the Legislature, not the courts. The possibility of similar problems happening again is hypothetical, he said, and hypothetical situations don’t meet the legal standard needed for this kind of lawsuit." --- Their pregnancies weren't hypothetical - and yes those pregnancies could happen to them or ANYONE again.
I don't get why people want so much control over pregnancy. If you don't have a uterus, stfu. As my daughter would say "MYOB."
I don't get why people want so much control over pregnancy. If you don't have a uterus, stfu. As my daughter would say "MYOB."
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MSgt Dale Johnson
Life is sacred to many. I am only in favor of abortions when the life of the Mother is in jeopardy or in the case of Incest and Rape if it is reported as a crime.
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