because it isn't a lie. republicans write weak-ass exceptions into the laws that are super vague and unclear while also writing in massive criminal penalties. this puts doctors in a position where they have absolutely no guarantee of legal protections if they make even a good faith error in practice, and draconian legal consequences. in such circumstances of fucking course they're going to be cautious, and this means that their ability to provide the care that they believe is necessary is impacted by that caution. you will now call doctors cowards, but the reality is that the laws were designed this way on purpose - create exceptions that aren't really exceptions to give you exactly the cover you're using to explain why your abortion ban isn't really a ban and all the dead women deserve it. ultimately, it doesn't matter what the exceptions say. they don't work. the proof that they don't work is the dead bodies of all the women who maybe might have maybe sort of qualified under the exception in hindsight but still didn't get the help they needed anyway. the proof is in the pudding. /thread i don't even give a shit about abortion, i just hate the fucking dishonesty
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