Let me get this straight:

[IdaBriggs]

Laws involving work place safety exist, but unless repeated violations occur (see: mining accidents, gulf oil rigs, and crop picking by undocumented immigrants) pretty much everyone ignores the "inconvenient" laws ---

AND

Domestic violence and rape are against the law, but if you are a victim, good luck getting a successful prosecution, because generally totally ignorable law ---

AND

Banks just paid BILLIONS in tax deductible fines (while not actually returning any of the homes they illegally foreclosed) in scams that lasted over a decade while consumers howled and NOBODY IN POWER DID ANYTHING ---

BUT PHYSICIANS, in the privacy of their own offices, can't just IGNORE STUPID ABORTION LAWS without risking losing the ability to practice medicine?

Seriously, who is going to report them? Who is actually going to notice or enforce these nut job laws if the physicians say "nope, not going to do that - come discuss it when it's efficacy has been validated with a peer reviewed study?"

What is wrong with this picture?

[Demeter]

1. The clerical staff, a planted patient, all kinds of mischief makers

The nature of those who seek to control is that they will do ANYTHING to keep control...as witness your examples of

Workplace safety scofflaws, (corporate cronyism/payoffs)

domestic violence (although that's part a police avoidance issue, part an abuse of the law issue, part a confused victim issue)

White collar fraud by financial institutions, who have bought their get-out-of-court free cards.

[tclambert]

2. And, of course, rape laws don't apply to football players.

[Enthusiast]

3. The nation has become a place of lawlessness

except when it isn't. They pick and choose.

This lawlessness ramped way up after the 2,000 election. The Bush V Gore decision signaled that we had entered a "new world order". That new world order has persisted ever since. The supreme court is as corrupt as it was in 2,000, maybe worse. The DOJ pursues justice selectively giving more emphasis on dope smokers than they do on bank fraud that destroys thousands of lives. Remember, home owners were actually foreclosed on when they weren't even delinquent on their mortgage—just an example.

No, they would make an example of doctors that performed abortions.

[Sirveri]

4. If everyone just ignored it, those states would be screwed.

Hell if 50% ignored it those laws would be overturned. They going to de-certify 50% of the doctors in state? Wouldn't it still have to clear a review board, would the review board actually pull a license for refusing to perform a medical unnecessary procedure?

[frogmarch]

5. Back in the 1960s my family doctor in

South Dakota performed D and C procedures (dilation and curettage) in lieu of "abortions." No one questioned it. This doctor gave my sister's teenage babysitter a D and C, and not even her mom knew her daughter had actually had an abortion.

•Dilation ("D&quot is a widening of the cervix to allow instruments into the uterus.
•Curettage ("C&quot is the scraping of the walls of the uterus.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002914.htm

[Quantess]

6. Good point. (no text)