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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          It’s the first fucking line of their oath

          Take the risk and provide the help or move to a state that allows you to help. Going along with the fascists isn’t the answer.

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            No, it isn’t. Physicians do not take the Hippocratic Oath. That is an anachronism.

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                  Physicians literally murder (in the moral if not legal sense) patients because the state pays them to. The state doesn’t even force them to, it just offers them a bit of money to execute prisoners, and they do it willingly. The entire medical system in the USA is deeply, deeply corrupt. It does not exist to help people, it exists to serve its own capitalist needs. Yes, they still take an oath today; a meaningless one that permits all that and more.

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                    Um, what? Citation needed, badly. All I’ve ever heard about this issue is that things like lethal injections are routinely fucked up because nobody with medical training is willing to participate.