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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's the text of Georgia's law:

“‘Abortion’ means the act of using, prescribing, or administering any instrument, substance, device, or other means with the purpose to terminate a pregnancy with
knowledge that termination will, with reasonable likelihood, cause the death of an unborn child.”

I suppose you could argue that the doctors aren't removing life support *in order to* terminate the pregnancy, but they certainly wouldn't be doing it for the benefit of the mother, right? She's dead. And they certainly have knowledge that removing life support ("any other means") will be reasonably likely to cause the death of an unborn child.

For SURE there is someone out there, some right to lifer,  willing to sue the doctor who removes life support. So since the law doesn't specifically say they can do this - they can't do it.[/quote]

They are not terminating a pregnancy. They are allowing the body of the woman to die naturally.

This is 100% activism on the medical professional level. [/quote]

Only if by activism, you mean refusing to puttheir medical license, and freedom, on the line by taking an action that will end a pregnancy without ironclad guarantee that their actions will be protected from criminal prosecution, I guess you are right.

It used to be that abortions were legal, and doctors therefore had the freedom to make medical decisions in the best interest of their patients.

Now in Georgia they are not legal unless the meet certain strict guidelines. brain death of mother needs to be one of them.[/quote]

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