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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]More and more horror stories like this.

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I don't doubt this happened, but I'm unclear on why the hospital thought that induction did not risk a violation, but D&E did?  Either way, it's terminating the pregnancy.  Is the Louisiana law written in a way that makes induction legal?  Assuming there is a fetal heartbeat. Or was there no heartbeat, but the hospital lawyers were advising that they needed new compliance/documentation policies for D&E, since they are usually (but not always) for an abortion?  That latter makes sense to me. [/quote]

Also ... Louisiana law says that in the health exception, "However, the physician shall make reasonable medical efforts under the circumstances to preserve both the life of the mother and the life of her unborn child in a manner consistent with reasonable medical practice."  I wonder if the hospital interpreted this to require induction rather than D&E.  Even though induction of a 16 week fetus is obviously going to result in death. [/quote]

Textbook Case 101 why politicians shouldn't be legislating medical procedures - this is just way too vague. Any decent General Counsel can come up with 15 potential ambiguities and points of clarification required in just that bit of text.

The fact that we have lawyers in the maternity ward deciding courses of medical treatment is pure insanity. I thought Republicans hated lawyers?[/quote]

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