The new legislation, prompted by ProPublica’s reporting, comes after 111 Texas doctors signed a public letter urging that the ban be changed because it “does not allow us as medical professionals to do our jobs.”

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          The problem is that right now if they choose to save one patient, they will have their licenses yanked and thrown in jail, which means that many other women would suffer due to a lack of services. These doctors know that their decisions led to the deaths of these two women. But they also know that having their own licenses yanked would do nothing but probably lead to the deaths of several more.

          For doctors, it’s basically a Sophie’s Choice.

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            not really

            again if enough doctors stood up

            licenses are pieces of paper representing their years of training and losing it will not make them not doctors does not work that way

            we are enough people that change could occur

            what if Martin Luther King Jr had decided that his freedom from jail meant more than the cause?

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              licenses are pieces of paper representing their years of training losing will not make them not doctors does not work that way

              Without those pieces of paper, they cannot practice medicine.