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[–] Myxomatosis 35 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Blood is on your hands, forced-birther conservatives.

[–] billiam0202 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They just don't care.

The number one cause of death for children in the US is gun violence, and they still fight every single effort to stop it.

I don't know what it will take to stop the insanity of the GOP, but it's not going to be dead women.

[–] Myxomatosis 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

"hooray another dead abortionist, and the evil abortion doctors were prevented from killing another baby" is probably how they'd spin in

[–] danc4498 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But think of all the babies they’re saving and forcing to live in poverty with parents that couldn’t afford them and a government that won’t support them.

[–] Myxomatosis 2 points 2 months ago

More wage-slaves and sacrifices for pointless wars.

[–] Tot 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

She basically died because she told the doctors she had taken miso. At this point she absolutely needed a D&C but because Georgia law said that's bAd, doctors risked losing their licenses to help her. And by the time they were going to, it was too late.

But hey, it was a woman who died, and she was black, so definitely not the kind of person they care about.

Ugh. So disgusting.

[–] EmpathicVagrant 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What is miso and what is a D&C?

Shorthand is fun but I’m just lost.

[–] abysmalpoptart 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I did a quick Google search, and I'm guessing miso is the ulcer treatment misoprostol that you shouldn't take during pregnancy. A d and c is a dilation and cutterage, an invasive surgical procedure that removes something from the uterus. In this instance the something was a nonviable pregnancy that went awry from possibly the medication (or other factors).

Admittedly i was also confused about miso, and immediately thought soup? I was extremely incorrect

[–] EmpathicVagrant 3 points 2 months ago

Now I weirdly want soup..

[–] ThePantser 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

These doctors are spineless too. First do no harm, they broke their oath out of fear of the law.

[–] NABDad 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've included the text (from https://doctors.practo.com/the-hippocratic-oath-the-original-and-revised-version/) below. I've also set in bold the phrase which I believe refutes your contention.

If the law prevents you from fulfilling the oath, then you are not able to fulfill the oath.


"I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:

I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow. I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.

I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug. I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.

I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty.

Above all, I must not play at God.

I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.

I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.

I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm. If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help."

[–] ThePantser 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Still spinless to have the ability to save a life and you don't just because some piece of shit politicians said no because their sky man said something 2000 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And risk getting fired and not being able to save any other lives in however many years you would've practicioned otherwise?

[–] ThePantser 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Why do doctor and nurse strikes work? Because when there are no doctors or nurses it puts pressure on those in power to act. If all doctors refuse to follow the law it can have a similar effect as a strike. Plus all the bad press the lawmakers will get if doctor after doctor is arrested. It will be a media shit storm.

[–] NABDad 1 points 2 months ago

Who knows, maybe they are Internet keyboard warriors in their spare time.

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