Three plaintiffs testified about the trauma they experienced carrying nonviable pregnancies.

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    “Physicians who violate Texas’s abortion laws can lose their medical licenses, face up to 99 years in prison or incur fines of at least $100,000, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights”

    You wouldn’t have to deal with any decision as hard as this. How can you say a doctor is complicit? They’re likely just doing their best then a law gets put in place threatening life in prison.

    Unless you’re put in that position, you have no room to say that shit.

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      If a doctor is willing to stand there with their thumb up their asshole while their patient dies an easily preventable death, they’re a failure as a doctor and as a human being. At best, it’s negligent manslaughter.

      If you’re too much of a cowardly little rat to stand up against fascism to save a life, don’t be a fucking doctor; quit and go work at Taco Bell you belong.

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        A doctor that throws away a career of helping people to make a political point once is probably not helping as many people as a doctor that avoids going to jail.

        I understand the impulse here but the reality is that texas legislators would probably prefer to reduce the number of doctors available to the poors.