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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    Aww that’s so sweet. It will take months to pass -if it does - and will then be struck down by everybody’s favorite Texas trump judge.

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    at this point the doctors need to take matters into their own hands and quit relying on kangaroo courts

    there are enough doctors that if most of them just started doing their jobs regardless of government policy something would eventually break and change would occur

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      Texas happily executes known innocent people. They’ll imprison and execute doctors and nurses without a second thought

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      there are enough doctors that if most of them just started doing their jobs regardless of government policy something would eventually break and change would occur

      They tried that in Idaho. Idaho basically just doubled down in response and now they’re having a crisis because of a lack of OB/GYNs.

      The legislature doesn’t care. They’ve lost about 25% of their OB/GYNs already and have done exactly nothing.

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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.