Instead, it offers doctors an “affirmative defense.” The difference is linguistically subtle but extraordinarily meaningful in criminal law, Akers says. The law makes performing all abortions illegal. And instead of the state having to prove that the procedure was not medically necessary, the law shifts the burden to the doctor to convince a court that it was.Then she opened up Instagram, where she sometimes explains criminal law to a handful of followers.
Zite is a complex family planning physician, and until recently provided abortion care for pregnancies that threatened the life of the mother and for those where it was clear the fetus would not survive. The latter are no longer allowed in Tennessee.These are often desired pregnancies, with parents who have decorated nurseries and decided on names. It’s devastating every time, she said.
She signed up to be the medical director of Akers’ nonprofit. They hosted a panel of doctors and asked them: What are you afraid of? When she first began her tour, she thought of it as a pragmatic, apolitical effort to explain the law without the fervor of the abortion wars. She’d leave the debate to others.
As a criminal defense lawyer for 15 years — many of them as a public defender — she’s well acquainted with the mercilessness of America’s criminal justice system. Brewer has said — and has written in published essays — that the law should be interpreted as only applying to elective abortions, when the sole reason for termination is that the mother doesn’t want a baby.
“You still end up in the same place at the end of the day,” he said of the line between an exemption and a defense. “But you just make sure the due diligence was done and that the law was treated with the seriousness that it deserves.” And these Ohio laws governed only later-term abortions, which account for a tiny fraction of terminations, she said. The post-Roe laws like the one in Tennessee will govern virtually all pregnancies, so the number of times a termination could be questioned in court will skyrocket.
“We’re being told there’s this very fine tightrope where you can follow the law. And if you fall one way, you’re committing a felony and if you fall the other way and you wait too long, then someone can sue you for malpractice. It feels pretty much impossible,” she said. “What am I supposed to do?” Tennessee already ranks toward the top of the list of states with abysmal maternal mortality rates, and Zahedi worries this will make matters worse.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
This is murder! The Republican lawmakers mandating the pregnant women cannot receive standard medical care to save their lives is MURDER! Republicans clearly want a genocide of women and girls.
So for those of you who won't read the FREE ARTICLE! This lawyer read the law and found that there is NO EXCEPTION and posted it to Instagram and has since started a nonprofit to help docs explain that they could in for big trouble if they perform it.
just wrong any way you look at it
Did no one read the article again?! She's a defense attorney HELPING doctors.
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Abortion is infanticide. 🧑⚕️😷🖤😷🧑⚕️
Imagine this being your mission in life. Terrible.
From settle law to total ban, SCOTUS is a political branch of gop
Godspeed
💔 I think Justice Alito should be impeached for setting this all in motion.
This is absolutely ludicrous. VoteBlueToSaveDemocracy
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How few will read through the article and just go off the rails on the headline and the dramatic panicked language in the first part if they even read so far.. most won't ever make their way to the end of it. Headlines rule, and they are all written to inflame not inform.
hard to believe the USA is seriously about to repeat this seriously BAD history... that, imo, is one of worst aspects of this whole issue: we have actually been here before and it's a bit of history NOBODY should want younger generations to have to repeat
:( moral of the story: don’t move to, invest in, do business with Tennessee.
'Lawyer Chloe Akers is one of the worst people in the universe and we should probably start thinking about why we have to share this existence with her.' Fixed that for you ...
Excellent. There is no medically necessary abortion to save a woman’s life. Doctors focus on the life in front of them.
“The government you elect is the government you deserve.” — Thomas Jefferson
If you dare to save a woman’s life, you’re going to spend the rest of your life in jail!
Fight the good fight.
Anyone that supports this type of assault on a women’s bodily autonomy is sick and depraved,
The article never states that she's against abortion. She's a criminal defense lawyer offering advice to physicians.
And they could be prosecuted under Federal EMTALA laws if they don’t save the woman’s life.
So, whose job is it to explain EMTALA to her?
Look, even in HouseOfTheDragonHBO , the king hesitated before deciding to save his unborn son over the life of his wife. Are we back before the Middle Ages?
When women start to die because of these laws things will change
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