A pregnant Texas teenager died an agonizing death from sepsis after doctors refused to abort her fetus even after she began to miscarry. Navaeh Crain, 18, visited the ER three times and had to wait 20 hours before she was admitted. The expectant mom had woken up on the day of her baby shower with nausea and vomiting, which […]
I don’t fault the doctors - they couldn’t perform the abortion without risking their own careers and possibly prison. The Texas legislature sacrificed that woman and others for Christian magic rattle-shaking.
But what I’d give to see a Doctor with the fucking stones to risk their career and prison to prostrate these shitheel lawmakers by telling them that their idiotic laws would have caused said doctor to break their Hippocratic Oath and ask them what is stronger: an Oath they made before their fellow man and witnessed by God, or the poorly written letter of the law.
I’d bet the fucking house that with that argument a jury wouldn’t convict and, whilst it wouldn’t undo the harm caused by the law, it would be the first precedent set in a common law system that would make state prosecutors more wary of enforcing said law. And a law that isn’t enforced is functionally dead.
That would make a good movie with a righteous rousing speech and all. IRL the shits have no shame, the public’s outrage dies down, and people go back to scrolling their feeds.