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Correct -- this means non-ER doctors performing the operation are liable. Which means almost every doctor is liable and therefore must wait for an emergency and send them to the hospital. Whereas normally this operation would be performed in office way before it reached that stage.

Remember that these are non-viable pregnancies from the instant they are detected. Does having to wait for it to become a life-threatening emergency make it legal? Sure, the same way that it would be legal to treat you for an infection but only once the infection has become so severe you are literally about to die, if this law was about banning antibiotics.



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