Texas abortion foes use legal threats, propose laws to increase pressure on providers, allies

[TexasTowelie]

Texas anti-abortion conservatives are intensifying their efforts to shut down access for residents seeking abortions, with a near-daily drumbeat of threats and court filings aimed at donors, employers and others trying to help those patients.

They are part of a broad campaign by the anti-abortion rights movement, in the days since the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the constitutional right to abortion last month, to dry up avenues of assistance for Texans who have no access to abortion under several state laws and punish providers who have tried to legally continue offering services in a constantly changing legal landscape.

In their crosshairs are not just providers, but also nonprofit funding groups and the donors who support them; people who volunteer time or give money to abortion providers; employers who support pregnant workers in getting abortions, and the abortion clinics and employees themselves.

“Any person who was complicit in these illegal abortions—including [provider] Whole Woman’s Health employees, volunteers, and donors, and anyone who aided or abetted these illegal abortions in any manner, apart from the formerly pregnant woman upon whom the illegal abortion was performed — is equally liable under the Texas Heartbeat Act and equally guilty of murder,” reads a recent court filing by attorney Jonathan Mitchell, the legal architect of many of those efforts, including Senate Bill 8, a Texas law that bans abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected by allowing citizens to sue suspected violators.

Read more: https://www.caller.com/story/news/2022/07/19/texas-abortion-foes-use-legal-threats-propose-laws-to-raise-pressure/65376394007/
(Corpus Christi Caller-Times)

[Irish_Dem]

1. Older Ob-Gyns will retire. Younger ones will train in a new speciality.

Medical school students will not go into OB-GYN speciality.

Health care professionals are not going to go into a specialty where they can lose their licenses for doing the ethical thing, have sky rocketing malpractice costs, and be harassed and threatened by people.

The GOP will make OB GYN health care providers commit malpractice by letting patients die. And that means no one will go into this field.

Other doctors may hesitant to treat pregnant women now for any reason.

The GOP goal is to make women second class citizens, who do not get quality medical care.

[TexasTowelie]

2. It is already having an effect in medical schools

where the students aren't learning to do D&C care. If there is no change, then there won't be any qualified providers in the entire country within a couple of generations.

[Irish_Dem]

3. That will be the loophole for OB-Gyns. They can claim no training in life saving procedures.

I don't know if a jury will buy it or not however.

[slightlv]

4. We may go back to trained Midwives

and it may become a woman only field once again. If so, I think this would be a good thing. Get men out of the field, altogether. Hell, get it out of the medical field... except in those emergency situations. But in the interim, it's absolutely not a good situation. In the long run, I'm for women taking care of women.