Texas GOP pushing bill that would make it legal for your doctor to lie to you

[DetlefK]

http://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2017/02/27/texas-lawmakers-advance-bill-that-would-allow-doctors-to-lie-to-pregnant-women

Committee members, it appears, believe it should be up to the doctor to decide if a pregnant woman should know she's carrying a fetus with severe disabilities — especially if the doctor suspects she'll have an abortion if she finds out. If passed, the law would make it impossible for Texans to sue a doctor for intentionally withholding this kind of information about a fetus' health.

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"This bill places a unreasonable restriction on the constitutional right of a woman to make an informed decision about whether or not to have an abortion," said Margaret Johnson, testifying in front of the committee on behalf of the Texas League of Women Voters. "SB 25 is a not-so-subtle way to give medical personnel the opportunity to impose religious beliefs on women."

[luvMIdog]

1. OMG !! The bastards!!

[Delmette2.0]

2. Scumbags!!!!

They don't care that a lie is wrong, that the healthcare for the child is expensive, that the child's quality of life would reduced from a little to alot.

Politicians and doctors need to give the public (this includes women) all the information good and bad so we can make our own decisions.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

4. Not to mention the fact

that Texas, among other states and Trumpublicans want to repeal ACA, destroy Planned Parenthood, block grant Medicaid, and some, like Paul Ryan, desperately want to privatize Medicare. If all that goes through, what the hell is a pregnant woman going to do when faced with not only the possibility that a child she's carrying may have severe disabilities who will require lots of intensive medical care to survive but also that they may be prohibited from even KNOWING before the child is born? Couples would never even know whether or not their doctors were being truthful with them about what is going on with their pregnancies. This is awful even if just for the damage it could do between women and their doctors.


#Gynotician

[Delmette2.0]

6. +1000

[niyad]

3. woman-hating, gestational slaving scum.

[lillypaddle]

5. That is some scary shit

How DARE those motherfuckers?????

[gratuitous]

7. Question

Will the doctor who withholds information from the patient be financially liable for the resultant birth, even if it has profound deficits expensive to treat?

Kind of turns the whole notion of informed consent on its head.

Nice to see that life is going so well in Texas that this is all the legislature has to spend its time and money on.

[ecstatic]

8. Will Texas pay for all medical fees, for life?

I can't imagine any doctors going along with that nonsense anyway.