Why haven't the American Medical Association and America’s medical personnel told the state legislators: “Go to hell. We’ll continue to practice medicine just as our Hippocratic Oath to "First do no harm," Good Samaritan Law, federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act and the Golden Rule require. We will continue to treat pregnant women just as before your misogynistic, cruel, immoral and unconstitutional laws.”
The AMA PRINCIPLES OF MEDICAL ETHICS include:
A physician shall, while caring for a patient, regard responsibility to the patient as paramount.
A physician shall support access to medical care for all people.
Legislators who vote to ban abortions know the result of such bans—the deaths of more women. In 2021, 1,205 women died from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. There are 91 side effects from pregnancy, including obstetric fistula and death. Pregnant women are more than twice as likely to be murdered during pregnancy or immediately after giving birth, than to die from any other cause. Women don’t have a “right to life.”
Will police arrest a hospitalized woman or just her doctor for providing an abortion because the fetus didn’t have a vital organ, or will separate enforcement agencies be created to investigate and make arrests? Will a doctor’s insurance cover lawsuits resulting from denying medical care and causing a woman’s death?
Does anyone seriously believe any jury would reach a unanimous verdict of “guilty” for a doctor or nurse who provided medical care to save the life of a woman? Any doctor taken away in handcuffs for saving a pregnant woman’s life would be a national hero.
Will each state government challenge the right to privacy and hire abortion police to monitor hospitals and clinics to demand the records of patients? Written permission is required of patients before a medical facility is allowed to share patient medical records with anyone.
Aren’t the legislators who voted for anti-abortion laws practicing medicine without a license? Another political group could gain power and pass laws that require vasectomies because of over-population. An earlier anti-abortion movement was to assure workers for factories, etc. and not because of religion.
What will it cost for additional police, court costs, prisons, etc., resulting from those laws? Many more facilities for abandoned children will be needed, with many "aging out" of the system and homeless. In 2021, over 391,000 children were living in the foster care system. Child abuse and neglect cases cost about $220 million every day.
Class action and wrongful birth lawsuits on behalf of those born with severe disabilities when their condition was identified before birth should skyrocket. The First Amendment and "prior restraint" prohibits laws restricting the dissemination of medical information.
Our Constitution says “All persons born or naturalized in the United States…are citizens” That excludes the unborn. If a woman can be imprisoned for having an abortion and a fertilized egg is legislated to be a “person," then the male who impregnated her is an accomplice and should also be arrested for his part in the “crime” of miscarriage or abortion.
Any state that requires a transvaginal ultrasound probe be administered to women seeking an abortion are mandating medical personnel to commit rape, which is illegal. The definition of rape is: “The penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim.” It’s illegal for a nurse to perform that procedure unless the woman consents to it.
Elected officials have knowingly passed unconstitutional and inhumane laws that will result in the deaths of women “guilty" of obtaining medical care—just as men do. Our Constitution allows both men and women the right to privacy and freedom of or from about fifteen religions, with 23 percent of our population unaffiliated with any religion. Nevertheless, all Americans are expected to comply with the “religion" of those who have gained power and are determined to subjugate women. John Adams wrote: “The government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.”
What if anyone who wanted the Constitution to be upheld and believes in the right of women to have jurisdiction over their own bodies set a date to go on strike or “call in sick”? Strikes have been effective, as they impact America’s businesses and government.
Just announcing the date of a strike could get the attention of the men who make our laws. October 3 might be appropriate—the date Rosie Jimenez was the first to die from an unsafe abortion because the Hyde Amendment wouldn’t allow Medicaid to pay for abortions. She died a student and single mother with a $700 scholarship check in her purse. Republican Henry Hyde’s former mistress was “extremely shocked and disgusted" by his attempts to ban abortions for poor women, remarking "He's being so moralistic when he was just the opposite.”