Malpractice insurance does not cover criminal prosecution, so doctors will err on the side of no intervention in cases of infection and bleeding in early pregnancy.
Women will die. #HB481
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This bill #HB481 if signed into law will kill women.
Abortion aside, doctors will be afraid to intervene in bleeding situations in early pregnancies.
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Savita Halappanavar was killed by the same legislation that will kill women in Georgia
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When doctors don’t learn to do abortions they don’t learn to do dilation and evacuation procedures for early second trimester complications that require uterine evacuation, including treating fetal demise. Women will get a riskier hysterotomy, many will lose their uterus
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If you are 18 weeks, ruptures membranes and have an infection but there is still fetal cardiac activity the recommended intervention is delivery. If I were in Georgia I would be afraid to do that because of
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I’ve been in the situation where I had to call a state Senator at home to ask his permission for an abortion to save a patient’s life. Not all doctors will have hospital lawyers who care enough to facilitate that and who will look out for them
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I seriously fear for America. Trump has taken the country backwards 50years. Scary scary times
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This isn't just Trump; it's the Republican Party that is taking this country back 100 years. They want a return to the Gilded Age. Trump is just the natural consequence of years of their corruption and cruelty.
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