@sandi
So the end result is that residents will have to out of state, like what happens in KS. And then as it has been reported in Catholic hospitals, when a women goes to hospital because of fetal distress the doctors will wait for a spontaneous abortion, or send her home to have a miscarriage, and the risk of death to the woman is raised, along with the loss of her fertility.
And all that not to save a life to take some made up stance that tax payers shouldn’t have to pay for something that legislators hate.
Where’s the concern when taxpayers have to pay for police misconduct, or disastrous policies that contribute to climate change, or even unsafe streets because of loose gun laws?
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I sense that you’re asking me to explain why the world makes no sense.
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Like all TRAP laws, parental information requirements, …, there will not be any providers! People will die, as that tragic tourist in Ireland a few years ago.
And while the specific abortion she had would technically have been permitted in Texas since her pregnancy was no longer viable, actually finding someone to perform the procedure would likely have been much more complicated than the short drive to her East Bay doctor.
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In 1986 I was presented with dishonesty (a very bad case) in a boss and it was suggested I’d get a raise if I was quiet. I resigned right there. Packed my desk and my bit of a lab and went home. I was unemployed for 4 months until I got an unasked for offer in a different department which I took. I still think I did the right thing and would do it again. Honesty is sometimes hard.
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Bravo for doing the right thing!!!
ETA, of course that points to one reason Repubs hate low unemployment numbers. Having options helps people do the right thing!
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I remember reporting coming out of MI, around the end of Obama’s 2nd term.
So some of what was pointed out is in rural areas it’s not just lack of hospitals, its that the Catholic Church has taken over so many hospitals and hospital systems. And how women who are going through a spontaneous abortion, fetal distress, or even death of fetus depends on the Archbishop’s views on abortion.
There were cases where women were sent home to wait for a natural abortion. There were cases where if the woman had been immediately sent to another hospital that could do an abortion quickly and safely they weren’t told of that option. And in some cases the minimum amount of care they received resulted in the loss of their fertility. These were woman who wanted their babies.
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Let me tell you it was not easy financially. When I got into my new job I noted unasked for respect. Apparently what I had done made the rounds in that hospital.
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This is so scary, unintended consequences. When the political arena controls or affects what is taught in a medical school, it’s Orwell’s “1984”.
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Yes, another one of those things people don’t understand when they talk about privatizing or turning to charity. The hidden baggage.
Back in the 80s, I was told catholic hospitals would refuse to remove both ovaries if they only found cancer in one, BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE CONTRACEPTION. Informant’s aunt ended up having a second cancer, etc. for something that would have been handled proactively under normal care [I think it was ovarian cancer, sorry if I got the details wrong @darrtown]
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What? no joy living under the most boring Caribbean dictator ever?
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Some people insist on practicing medicine without any knowledge. It would be sensible to remove both ovaries if one were cancerous. That’s what my mom did. Along with other parts over subsequent years. It took 12 years for my mom to finally die of her cancer. And it drove me to do what I did for my career. I hate cancer and contributed what I could to early detection of ovarian cancer. It’s nasty. Period. Full stop. I don’t want women to suffer the way my mom did.
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That’s pretty horrible.
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Evil Triumphs When Good Women and Men Do Nothing.
DeSantis is a horrible governor
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I read that “student success” will a criterium for continuing employment, which means that A’s are going to be ridiculously easy to get. So, I don’t think the system will have any problems whatsoever attracting students, although they may not have the intellectual chops it would prefer.
Universities are scarcely more than administrations with a football team anymore, so pesky professors were always going to lose power. Now higher education can be fully treated like a business, which means finding ways to cut production costs and squeeze the maximum amount of work from the fewest possible workers.
Faculty with seniority cost more than newly-minted Ph.Ds, so logic dictates that older professors be forced out somehow in favor of adjuncts who will almost literally work for food. Then you start cutting back on the Humanities and Social Sciences, which are the two colleges most vulnerable to predation in an anti-intellectual environment: very few Georgians would weep to see the end of French literature instruction, or ceramics art classes.
Even in states that aren’t so vocally anti-intellectual, tenure is a dead man walking. As professors retire, schools quietly retire the tenure line and hire an adjunct to carry the workload for a fraction of the price. I suspect the graduate programs won’t be squeezed for the very reason that they produce the future Ph.Ds who will work for nothing and thus keep labor costs down.
All states like Georgia need to do is dangle a yummy carrot in front of the university system, promising money in exchange for conservative-friendly courses, and the corporate takeover will pretty much be complete.
A traditional university education will become the province of the privileged once again, and I don’t know how many Americans will really resent that.
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So much for the “market place of ideas”. Conservatism can’t withstand criticism and they know it.
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Well, they better stay away from @tena.
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What?!? I thought that you kept hound dogs.
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Did they maintain a similar position for testicular cancer?
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Among other things, the committee noted “Reports that University of Florida employees were told verbally not to criticize the Governor of Florida or UF policies related to Covid-19 in media interactions.”
Viktor Orbán’s Hungary. That’s freedumb. Sure, it is going to get a lot worse. America is sick.
By the way, faculty tend to be a fairly timid and conservative bunch, holding on to their precious (hopes for) tenure.
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