New reporting requirements for life
Time:2024-05-07 22:25:48 Source:styleViews(143)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Doctors who perform life-saving abortions may soon be required to document whether they first tried to transfer the patient to another facility to avoid terminating the pregnancy, a move some say goes beyond the language of the law.
Health lawyers and doctors worry this proposed requirement further disincentivizes doctors from performing medically necessary, but legally risky, abortions.
“This creates even more uncertainty for doctors who were already concerned,” said Rachael Gearing, a Dallas health care lawyer who represents OB/GYN clinics. “It’s basically saying, ‘Well, you should have passed your patient off to someone else who would have held out longer and wouldn’t have done the abortion.’”
Texas’ laws allow abortions to save a patient’s life, but doctors have struggled to apply that exception in practice, especially when faced with up to life in prison, fines and the loss of their medical license.
Previous:Twyla Tharp dance will open 700
Next:Nonprofit Chicago production house Invisible Institute wins 2 Pulitzer Prizes
You may also like
- DeLuca stays hot with homer and 4 RBIs as Rays beat Clevinger and White Sox 8
- China to provide emergency aid of 200m yuan, including food, 3 million vaccines to Afghanistan
- Olives link northwest China with world
- Late night shooting in Philadelphia leaves at least three dead, 11 injured
- Tom Brady teases Bill Belichick for infamous Ring doorbell footage of former Patriots coach
- European Sand Sculpture Championships held in Zandvoort, the Netherlands
- Powerful Hurricane Ida slams U.S. Louisiana, other regions
- Hundreds gather in London to protest against Assange's U.S. extradition
- The Celtics and Cavaliers last met in playoffs in 2018. This time Boston is the team to beat