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This was a string of malpractices. The Missouri law didn't prohibit an abortion in this case, but it was incorrectly judged by the doctors/their legal staff. The law allows abortions in case of a medical emergency - which this was.
Yeah but I can't blame the doctors for refusing, when in doubt a right wing jury without medical training will decide if it was an emergency or not, and your freedom depends on their verdict.
Doctors swear an oath, "first, do no harm." So yes we can blame the doctors!
Doctors are supposed to behave ethically regardless of the law. This is not a new thing! Doctors providing appropriate treatment despite the law is a very fucking long tradition in medicine.
It isn't. Name one time that happened.
"Do no harm" doesn't mean "risk your livelihood and freedom to perform an operation that a patient can get elsewhere".
Just one? Sherwin Raymond: https://newrepublic.com/article/167633/roe-wade-abortion-doctors-dobbs-prison
...but doctors have been imprisoned or killed for treating the "enemy" since, well, doctors.