Posted on 03/27/2020 6:54:29 PM PDT by Morgana
As attempts to exploit the COVID-19 pandemic go, here’s a reprehensible one: the effort by some conservative states to halt abortions by arguing that they are “nonessential” medical procedures. Sounds ridiculous, but that's the way officials in Ohio and Texas have interpreted emergency health orders intended to conserve medical equipment and gear needed for hospitals during the crisis.
It should be obvious that an abortion can't be "postponed" until the pandemic clears up like a facelift or cataract surgery or routine dental work. If a woman doesn't get get an abortion in a timely fashion, she can’t get it at all.
And that is, undoubtedly, what Texas and Ohio are hoping for. This is a chance for abortion opponents and state officials who are hostile to reproductive rights to advance their goal of making abortions difficult to access under the ruse of protecting coronavirus patients. (Mississippi's governor said his state might follow suit.) That’s shameless. And it’s medically negligent.
Besides, the vast majority of abortions are not even performed in hospitals; they're done in clinics. And providers there say they have reduced the use of protective equipment where possible.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists along with several other medical societies issued a statement warning that a delay of even several days in getting an abortion could make it inaccessible and could “profoundly impact a person’s life, health, and well-being.”
Neither the Texas nor the Ohio emergency order restricts doctors to providing care only in a life-or-death situation. The Ohio Department of Health order says doctors may perform procedures to save someone from having a dysfunctional limb, for example. But Ohio Atty. Gen. Dave Yost, in a letter to two abortion providers, told them to stop performing surgical abortions in cases where the mother's life is not at risk.
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Not sure why they call abortion an “medical procedure”
Seems like the very opposite of a medical procedure.
Well perhaps the woman should have been using contraception; if she didn’t have/couldn’t get contraception then she should have stayed abstinent.
“Sounds ridiculous, but that’s the way officials in Ohio and Texas have interpreted emergency health orders...”
Ridiculous?!? F-off, you ghouls.
I know the more I read this the more I just shake my head.
They could spread corona around like candy and they worried about this?
The baby killing is what’s reprehensible. What a sickening article!
The guillotine could be classified as a medical procedure.
“As attempts to exploit the COVID-19 pandemic go”
And the rats know a thing or two about exploiting
I bet it makes a dent in the death count, and should be accounted for.
I bet also if instead of just lives you count YEARS OF LIFE ... who knows, Corona might wind up causing more total human life. There's going to be a wave of Corona babies in 9 - 12 months too.
Wow...
>>As attempts to exploit the COVID-19 pandemic go, here’s a reprehensible one: the effort by some conservative states to halt abortions by arguing that they are “nonessential” medical procedures.
I’ve seen several articles about Rat governors prohibiting citizens from using certain prescribed FDA approved drugs to treat CV-19.
Isn’t this a privacy issue between a doctor and patient?
Well, it was designed by a doctor, iirc.
Priorities. These folks never have to be responsible. STDs, AIDS/HIV, etc. will never stop irresponsible behavior of liberals. The rest of society must put things like urgent surgeries on hold while they demand remedies for their poor choices.
I eagerly agreed with postponing a surgery that was scheduled for this week, understanding that this virus crisis is more important. Sure, I can endure broken hardware until we all get a handle on this issue. But, these people can’t do anything for anyone else even in a pandemic. Sad.
I wonder how many women who had “safe, legal abortions” have died? There have been 50 million abortions since it became legal. Wouldn’t the odds say that there would be some women who had these “safe, legal abortions” who would have died or gotten some serious injury or conditions? Where are the medical records on abortion clinics? If women have injuries after an abortion do they have to be taken to hospitals? Where can we see the hospitals records? There is so much mystery around abortion.
Y’know... When I was in high school and we found out my kidneys were failing, it didn’t stop me from having sex with the man I ultimately dated for nearly a decade and almost married (he was a cheater), BUT - I used two forms of contraception at all times until I had a tubal ligation. Ultimately, it was only two years, but I always had some combination of pill and OTC contraceptive. No exceptions. If I, as a teen then, could afford it (before ACA), so can the average woman out there. Hell; the average man can afford it. The condoms go on them, after all.
The PPE needs to go to medical staff performing life-saving care, including dialysis centers. My father drove by the one I used to go to, and there were only four cars in the lot at 15:30 on a Friday. Prime dialysis time here. I hope they pushed patients towards at-home dialysis temporarily.
In any case, unless the mother’s life is, literally, in imminent danger, I see no reason to terminate at all.
Leftists don’t like when Atheists like me hold any opinion other than, “all abortion is good! let’s kill all uterine-dwellers!”
I get CAPS lock cruise control.
“They could spread corona around like candy and they worried about this?”
And they mocked all the patriots who worried the govt might use this as an excuse to confiscate firearms.
Clearly not essential, if a woman is pregnant, and gets no abortion treatment, the condition resolves itself in 9 months
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