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Just as advocates of abortion access warned, the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade is resulting in increased pain, anguish and risk of death for pregnant women. It’s forcing health-care providers into a Catch-22 where they increasingly must navigate between their professional obligation to provide appropriate medical care and their fear of criminal prosecution and loss of their medical licenses.
The Post reports that “the standard of care for incomplete miscarriages, ectopic pregnancies and other common complications is being scrutinized, delayed — even denied — jeopardizing maternal health, according to the accounts of doctors in multiple states where new laws have gone into effect.”
Forced-birth zealots have set up a system in which doctors in states with draconian and/or hopelessly vague abortion bans are compelled to defer medically recommended abortion until the woman is at imminent risk of death. In those states, too, pharmacists resist filling a prescription for medication to resolve miscarriages […]
The issue is that we allow legislators to become involved in medical practice. That is the irrational part. Second, we have been such a prosecution based society that physicians are concerned about criminal liability and correctly so. Ask yourself, how many pharmaceutical executives have served time in prison for the opioid epidemic? Compare this to the number of physicians prosecuted for their opioid prescription writing. The lack of accountability for the powerful and the level of corruption is stunning on all levels.
We really need a new health-care system with no profits for anyone; only care for all equally.