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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Women are dying! We may not be hearing much about prosecutions because the doctors are not performing the abortion.

Another woman died just yesterday in Texas

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/10/30/texas-abortion-ban-josseli-barnica-death-miscarriage/[/quote]

Doctors are also NOT PRESENT to perform abortions. There is no legal, ethical, or moral requirement for a physician to take on more patients than they can handle -- there is actually requirement not to do so. The only exception is at emergency rooms.

About 1 in 4 OB-GYNs in Idaho have left the state or retired since the abortion ban went through. Medical residents are avoiding training in states that have abortion bans. You can pour more gasoline on this trend by being yet more aggressive about prosecuting (or threatening to prosecute) doctors who are having to make twisted judgment calls in the already litigious and threatening environment. NOTHING prevents doctors from leaving states where they are put in these situations -- and already having lost too many colleagues who left, are now doing more call and trying to cover more patients with more threats and more harassment.

[b]States With Abortion Bans See Continued Decrease in U.S. MD Senior Residency Applicants[/b]
https://www.aamcresearchinstitute.org/our-work/data-snapshot/post-dobbs-2024

[b]Medical residents are starting to avoid states with abortion bans, data show[/b]
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/05/09/1250057657/medical-residents-starting-avoid-states-abortion-bans

[b]New doctors continue to avoid residencies in states with abortion bans[/b]
https://www.axios.com/2024/05/09/doctors-residencies-states-abortion-bans

[b]The doctors leaving anti-abortion states: ‘I couldn’t do my job at all’[/b]
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/26/us-abortion-ban-providers-doctors-leaving-states

Currently you cannot force doctors to work in any given state, and you cannot prevent them to moving to another state. Are you suggesting to change that?

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