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I wonder how many Savita Halappanavar's (she died from complications post miscarriage in Ireland in 2012) there need to be in the world before people pull their heads out of their asses and let women have true bodily autonomy and give them the care that goes along with that?
Like, whether you take the Hippocratic Oath, the WHO's Oath, Lasagna's Oath (yes, it's a thing - one of the revisions of the Hippocratic Oath in the 20th century done by a man who's last name was Lasagna), or any of the other versions that are out there, the one unifying factor is that as a medical professional you swear to not harm your patients. This is harming patients. They are breaking their oaths and should have their licenses revoked for intentional malpractice.
For physicians in these total ban states, defying the law would mean the loss of everything they have. Under your edict here, OB/Gyns would lose their license no matter what. They'd lose their license under your plan if they refused to provide abortion care and they'd lose their license and face prison time if they did provide abortion care.
Yes, it means that the women who need abortion care are going to suffer immensely, but there's already a dire shortage of OB/Gyn physicians, so losing more of them to prison is not going to help all the women that need regular obstetric or gynecologic care and the women who need abortion care.
This is the definition of "between a rock and a hard place" and there's maternal mortality on both sides because when women can't get prenatal care, it drastically increases the chances of them dying from pregnancy or delivery complications.