Repub bill HR 358 "Let Women Die"

Not without losing their federal funding they should not.
It is settled law, it is a legal medical procedure between Dr & patient. This is VERY bad law and flies in the face of conservatives wanting individuals to control their own destiny.

And what of allowing the mother to die AND the fetus? That was kinda glossed over by you & the anti-choicers!

You are misunderstanding that bit of the Hippocratic oath.

The line is "First do no harm"

That means that the doctor is to not take any action that would be harmful. Not performing an abortion isn't an action, it is inaction, therefore it doesn't apply.

The idea of that section is to caution a doctor, if you don't know what you are doing it is better to not do anything for fear of accidentally making the situation worse and causing harm.

Millions of american women have access to a solitary hospital. Millions of american women would be at risk - having to transfer many miles during AN EMERGENCY!
Geesh people, really, get a clue!!!!

Like if a doctor comes on a road crash and refuses to give aid for fear of litigation?

IF those hospitals opt to deny abortions. You seem to think that every single one of them will.

We have Samaritan laws in place for people giving emergency aid. People with medical training, however, are obligated to assist. That might vary from state to state though....don't quote me on that.

If your grandmother were growing inside my body and my giving birth to your grandmother would cause my death, it is then my right to decide if I want to terminate that life, growing inside me, to save my own life.

Above all, I must not play at God.

From the current Hippocratic Oath.

I consider playing at God being choosing what life is more valuable to save. To decide to do less work for one life and more to save another life. Playing God can be done saving a life. It is my legal right, where I live, to refuse a surgery even if it saves my life. If my doctor does it anyways and he saves my life, he went against my word and did it when I said not to. So to me that is wrong to.

If I do not want the life that is growing in me because giving birth will kill me, in my opinion, that is my right. For a doctor to decide my life is not valuable enough to save, that is playing at God.

The life in me is still in me and still in my body so who is he to tell me he is going to choose for me to die.

But yes, to me sometimes saving a life is playing God and is wrong just as it is in terminating a life.

I don't want to turn this into a debate over abortion or whether a fetus is indeed a person or not.

I'm asking you to accept the fact that some people genuinely believe a fetus is indeed a person, whether it's inside another human being or not.

To these people, there is no ethical difference between killing my grandmother and killing your fetus.

No, I mean like if a doctor is on the scene of a shooting they won't attempt to get the bullet out because they don't really know the situation and could inadvertently make it worse.. Their first duty is to do no harm. When in doubt inaction is the best action.

There's always a catch-all somewhere. Used to be, in the U.S. military, every form filled out required your social security number. They got around that by one of these same 'catch-alls' -- putting this notice on all forms: "Social Security Number is not required. However, the action you are trying to do CANNOT BE processed without the use of your number."

There's always a way around things. Depends on your morales and values.

As I see it, it would let the woman have her CHOICE of having a life- saving abortion; but, NOT HERE at this hospital. There's the
catch-22 I posted about previously.

Let me grab my zombie shovel, have your grandmother stand up and face away from me, and I'll settle this right now.

But you see... that is playing God too. I'm not saying one is more right than the other nor that they are exactly the same thing, but they are both playing God.

I wouldn't want to be in the position to decide for another person and I don't think the doctor's should be allowed to. That's why I said earlier that women need to think of these things before they decide on a doctor/hospital. They need to find one that will accommodate their beliefs.