More bad news from government intrusion anti-freedom Texas, from the Texas Tribune:

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/07/15/texas-hospitals-abortion-laws/

The Texas Medical Association is asking state regulators to step in after it says several hospitals afraid of violating the state’s abortion ban have turned away pregnant patients or delayed care leading to complications, The Dallas Morning News reported.

In a letter to the Texas Medical Board — the state agency that regulates the practice of medicine — TMA officials on Wednesday said they have received complaints that hospital administrators and their legal teams are stopping doctors from providing medically appropriate care to patients with some pregnancy complications. They ask the board to “swiftly act to prevent any wrongful intrusion into the practice of medicine.”

TMA is a professional nonprofit that represents over 55,000 medical professionals in the state.
The request comes as confusion and concerns abound among Texas medical professionals over what they can and cannot do under Texas’ abortion ban.

Beyond elective abortions, there are several situations in which a doctor might advise an abortion for the safety of the patient — including ectopic pregnancies, in which a fertilized egg grows outside of the uterus, making it unviable — or provide other stabilizing treatments during hypertension and preeclampsia. Delays in treatment can cause serious health complications.

But in a post-Roe world, physicians in states where abortion has been banned have to weigh the legal implications of their actions, instead of making decisions based on what prevailing medical literature recommends. In Texas, doctors can face six-figure fines and be put in jail for any disallowed abortions.

According to the Morning News, the TMA included in its letter examples of some cases in which treatment was denied or delayed but did not name specific hospitals. In Central Texas, a physician was allegedly instructed to not treat an ectopic pregnancy until a rupture occurred, which puts patient health at serious risk, the letter says.

“Delayed or prevented care in this scenario creates a substantial risk for the patient’s future reproductive ability and poses serious risk to the patient’s immediate physical wellbeing,” the letter says.

The TMA letter also accused two other hospitals of telling doctors to turn away pregnant patients and send them home to “expel the fetus” if their water broke too soon, which can put them at risk of infection.

Not only are patients being put at risk of serious injury, but doctors could face lawsuits or the loss of their medical licenses for not providing adequate care, the TMA letter says. Failing to do so might violate the state’s prohibition on the corporate practice of medicine, which generally prohibits corporations or nonphysicians from practicing medicine.

The TMA’s plea comes one day after Texas sued the Biden administration to block new federal guidance reiterating to the nation’s doctors that they’re protected by federal law to terminate a pregnancy as part of emergency treatment.


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Edited by Easy Money - April 19 2024 at 20:00

Senate passes FISA 60-34.

Edited by omphaloskepsis - April 20 2024 at 06:09

The money is going toward the purchase and manufacturing of weapons from the U.S. This supports thousands of Americans who work in weapons manufacturing and the needed part. I am not taking any position on the bill itself, but to say no money goes to Americans is not entirely accurate.

I would rather not spend money on war, but the decision making on this isn't simply about a preferrence of where money should be spent. Another consideration is whether having Russia take Ukraine is acceptable. Historically, holding a nonintervenist policy has not resulted in a welcome outcome.

mathman0806 wrote: T I would rather not spend money on war, but the decision making on this isn't simply about a preferrence of where money should be spent. Another consideration is whether having Russia take Ukraine is acceptable. Historically, holding a nonintervenist policy has not resulted in a welcome outcome.

Edited by omphaloskepsis - April 20 2024 at 09:29

omphaloskepsis wrote: Ukraine will lose the war to Russia.

Was aid money to Ukraine and /or Israel in the border bill ? Anything else besides the U.S. border issue?
I have never read the bill.

Another presidential candidate is arrested.  I voted for Dr. Jill Stein in 2016. 

The Dark Elf wrote: omphaloskepsis wrote: Another presidential candidate is arrested.  I voted for Dr. Jill Stein in 2016.  https://ijr.com/green-party-presidential-candidate-jill-stein-arrested/ I always felt she should have chosen Al Franken as her running mate. Everyone would have voted for a Franken-Stein ticket.