Doctors are caught between the law and their duty of care.
Last week, two lawsuits were filed against a doctor after he wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post explaining why he had intentionally violated Texas' abortion law shortly after it was introduced. He's not the only medical professional struggling to balance the requirements of the new law with their obligation to patients. "I am an obstetrician-gynecologist, and it is my ethical duty to take care of people," Ghazaleh Moayedi wrote in a Times Opinion guest essay last week. "It is also my ethical duty to refer those patients elsewhere when I'm barred from taking care of them where they are." |
And as Ezra Klein pointed out on his latest podcast episode, restricting this type of care without a second thought overlooks a key fact: "There is a violence to pregnancy, a constant lurking and often realized threat. Pregnancy is dangerous. It kills. It scars. It traumatizes." That Texas and other states are willing to force a person to go through this kind of trauma makes one thing patently clear: The "body has been effectively taken into the state's control, conscripted no matter the cost to it. No matter the cost to that person." |
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