Points One and Four are particularly relevant today. I may disagree somewhat with some of your moral arguments, but agree that, legally speaking, abortion should be a private decision between doctor and patient, especially during the time before a developing baby is "viable."
It's worth noting that, in the absence of any state "trigger" law making abortion illegal as soon as Roe is reversed, the recent SCOTUS decision does not make abortion illegal. It returns the decision-making to the states, and realistically it's unlikely to be overturned anytime soon.
What can be achieved now is to protect the doctor-patient relationship and medical privacy at the state level. This needs to include both issues of pregnancy and the right of doctors to prescribe drugs "off-label" to treat conditions other than those originally approved by the FDA.
A doctor's right, nee obligation, to treat and prescribe under the Hippocratic Oath and right to free speech must not be restricted by the bureaucratic decisions of an employer, hospital, licensing board or certifying agency absent a long-standing pattern of malpractice, incompetence or abuse. Doctors must not be subject to challenge by such bureaucracies based on complaints by politically motivated entities or people who are not the doctor's patients. Individuals must not be subject to coercion of any sort to get them to accept any medical procedure.
And if you live in a state like mine, where insane mandates for masking and denying people jobs without having a medical procedure they do not want, violating the US Constitution and the Nuremburg Code AND the Declaration of Human Rights, why would it be any more of a stretch to simply deny women a medical procedure that should also be THEIR CHOICE? That's what I'm seeing in my state regarding the lies around "Covid." I think a LOT of people really don't understand what's happening in the world right now...
And anyway, thanks for clearing up a lot of jumbled-up ideas regarding the situation.
Points One and Four are particularly relevant today. I may disagree somewhat with some of your moral arguments, but agree that, legally speaking, abortion should be a private decision between doctor and patient, especially during the time before a developing baby is "viable."
It's worth noting that, in the absence of any state "trigger" law making abortion illegal as soon as Roe is reversed, the recent SCOTUS decision does not make abortion illegal. It returns the decision-making to the states, and realistically it's unlikely to be overturned anytime soon.
What can be achieved now is to protect the doctor-patient relationship and medical privacy at the state level. This needs to include both issues of pregnancy and the right of doctors to prescribe drugs "off-label" to treat conditions other than those originally approved by the FDA.
A doctor's right, nee obligation, to treat and prescribe under the Hippocratic Oath and right to free speech must not be restricted by the bureaucratic decisions of an employer, hospital, licensing board or certifying agency absent a long-standing pattern of malpractice, incompetence or abuse. Doctors must not be subject to challenge by such bureaucracies based on complaints by politically motivated entities or people who are not the doctor's patients. Individuals must not be subject to coercion of any sort to get them to accept any medical procedure.
And if you live in a state like mine, where insane mandates for masking and denying people jobs without having a medical procedure they do not want, violating the US Constitution and the Nuremburg Code AND the Declaration of Human Rights, why would it be any more of a stretch to simply deny women a medical procedure that should also be THEIR CHOICE? That's what I'm seeing in my state regarding the lies around "Covid." I think a LOT of people really don't understand what's happening in the world right now...
And anyway, thanks for clearing up a lot of jumbled-up ideas regarding the situation.