The abortion ban will drive aspiring doctors out of state. Who will care for Idahoans?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Elana King-Nakaoka

The Idaho Supreme Court ruled that Idaho’s near-total abortion ban can go into effect in a matter of days. The court said that the petitioners who challenged the new laws failed to prove that enforcing the ban would cause “irreparable harm.”

The court is profoundly wrong. As a concerned Idaho medical student, I strongly oppose these new laws because they will cause irreparable harm. At graduation, I will swear an oath to do no harm or injustice to my patients. Idaho’s abortion ban is at odds with this oath.

Abortion care saves lives every day, and we are already seeing the dangerous consequences of restrictive abortion bans in Texas and Ohio. Even though these new bans allow doctors to defend themselves from prosecution in the cases of rape, incest, and life-threatening scenarios, pregnant patients are being denied care for miscarriages, ectopic pregnancies, and other complications due to physicians’ fear and confusion about the new laws. The fear is justified. For example, once the Idaho ban takes effect, “any healthcare professional who performs, attempts to perform or assists in performing an abortion ... will face imprisonment and professional license suspension or permanent license revocation,” according to the Department of Justice.

In America, being pregnant is already one of the most dangerous experiences of a person’s life. Our country has the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world. Hundreds of patients die each year and over 50,000 are severely injured due to childbirth and pregnancy complications.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/abortion-ban-drive-aspiring-docs-100000219.html

[House of Roberts]

1. MAGAditionist states don't need doctors or teachers.

Let them subsist without either. If they can, I say.

[Turbineguy]

2. Republicans will care of patients.

Undertakers will prosper.

[MyMission]

3. Idahoans need to care for themselves

And for each other by voting in representatives who will represent them, and prioritize maternal health and women's rights.

Otherwise they deserve what they get.

[Hassler]

4. The ones who live in Boise will have to set up shop in nearby Ontario, Oregon.

Planned Parenthood of Oregon is expanding care in Ontario.

[keithbvadu2]

5. Thoughts and prayers and Trump's shaman.

Thoughts and prayers and Trump's shaman.

[Grins]

6. The logical result of living in the Reich-wing dystopia.

Said it for years: let them vote Republican, let them have to live in the world they created - and watch out!

The flip side is Kansas, that voted for religious crackpot and ‘fiscal conservative’ Sam Brownback, and he damn near financially broke the state in pieces.

Businesses fled, school budgets pole-axed, credit rating gone!

You’d think after that ‘life-taught’ hard lesson no Republican would win another election for a decade, but - NOPE!