It's OK everyone, a memo and a video will be sent out. Stop overreacting.

[ck4829]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — In Republican-led states across the U.S., conservative legislators are refusing to reevaluate abortion bans — even as doctors and patients insist the laws’ exceptions are dangerously unclear, resulting in denied treatment to some pregnant women in need.

Instead, GOP leaders accuse abortion rights advocates of deliberately spreading misinformation and doctors of intentionally denying services in an effort to undercut the bans and make a political point. At the same time, however, some states are taking steps that they say will provide more clarity about when abortions can be legally performed.

In Oklahoma, the AG sent out a memo in 2022 informing prosecutors and police that doctors should have “substantial leeway” to provide certain abortions. Last year, the office added that patients don’t have to be “septic, bleeding profusely, or otherwise close to death” — but reiterated a past warning that doctors should be prosecuted if there’s evidence they violated the law by providing an abortion when a woman’s life wasn’t actually in danger.

https://apnews.com/article/abortion-bans-exceptions-doctors-lawmakers-7cefca4a248076268c789ea05b367f1a

So relax, the same people who can't tell the difference between sugar and meth are now properly entrusted by the people who don't know anything about a woman's body to decide if a doctor should be prosecuted based on if that woman's life was actually in danger or not. Sure, you could lose your license and go to prison, but all the bases are now covered!

I'm sure everything will be fine now. So stop worrying about it.

[Biophilic]

1. Yeah, those guidelines are going to help alot, right?

Those poor doctors. Trained to save lives, now having to worry about some cops personal "medical" decision. How do cops or prosecutors have the knowledge to even begin to judge what is life threatening or life saving. We are elevating the idiots over the professionals. What could go wrong?

[ck4829]

2. The very idea sounds surreal

If a jury doesn’t think a woman’s life needed saving, then you could go to prison.

If I was on a jury and that came up, I’d always vote to acquit… you know, nullification, but I’ve actually been told that’s not a good idea to do that, to even advocate for it, but I guess here we are.

[TheKentuckian]

3. What is necessary is as close to right as anyone can be.