Democratic state lawyers -general under the leadership of those from California, New York and Massachusetts are under pressure from medical professional groups to defend reproductive rights, including Medication abortion” Emergency abortionsAnd Travel between States For healthcare in response to recent increase in the number of abortion prohibitions.
The American Medical Association has one formal position 9 June recommend that exams for medical certification from states will be moved with restrictive abortion policy or virtually, then 20 Lawyers -General submitted To protect doctors who fear legal consequences because of their work. The petition was aimed at the certification exams of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Dallas, and the subsequent AMA recommendation was praised as a victory for Democrats trying to regain the ground after the fall of Roe v. Wade.
“It seems incremental, but there are so many things that will make a difference and have access to care,” said Arneta Rogers, executive director of the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice at the Law School of the University of California-Berkeley. “We see AGS together Banding, governors together, while proponents work on the ground. That feels somewhat more hopeful – that people think of a coordinated strategy.”
Since the Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to an abortion in 2022, 16 StatesIncluding Texas, laws have implemented that abortion almost completely, and many of them impose criminal fines to providers and options to sue doctors. More than 25 states Limit access to gender -confirming care for transgender people, and six of them make it a crime to offer such care to the youth.
That has expressed concern for some doctors who are afraid to be accused when they go to those states, even if their home state provides protection to offer reproductive and gender -confirming health care.
Point to the recent fine and indictment against a doctor In New York, who is said to have provided abortus pills to a woman in Texas and a teenager in Louisiana, a coalition of doctors wrote in a letter to the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology that “the boundaries of the shield laws are weak” and that “Texas could also play with Artssen who also” “” “”
The campaign was launched by various Democratic Procurators General, including Rob Bonta from California, Andrea Joy Campbell from Massachusetts, and Letitia James van New York, who each founded a reproductive unit of law as a stronghold for their state after the state Floats decision.
“Reproductive health care and care providers of gender -confirming care should not risk their safety or freedom to continue in their medical career,” James said in An explanation. “Forcing providers to travel to states that have declared war against reproductive freedom and LGBTQ+ rights is just as unnecessary as dangerous.”
In their petition, the Attorney General contained a letter from Joseph Ottolenghi, medical director at Choices Women’s Medical Center in New York City, who was refused his request to take the remote test or outside of Texas. To be certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, doctors have to do that Take the personal exam In the test facility in Dallas. The board completed construction of his new test facility last year.
“As a New York practitioner, I have done everything to not break the laws of other state, but the outer contours of these draconian laws have not been tested or clarified by the courts,” wrote Ottolenghi.
Rachel Rebouché, the dean of the Law School of Temple University and a reproductive Law Scholar, said that “De Hakel” of the Attorney General helps to build consciousness behind this effort and a “public settlement” on behalf of providers. Some doctors have insisted on medical conferences to boycott states with abortion prohibitions.
However, anti-abortion groups see the campaign as the force of providers to conform to the views of the abortion rights. Donna Harrison, an OB-Gyn and the director of research at the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and gynecologists, described the petition as an “attack not only on pro-life states, but also on life-confirming medical professionals.”
Harrison said that the “OB-Gyn community consists of doctors with values who are just as diverse as the abortion laws of our nation”, and that this diversity “promotes a medical environment of debate and rigorous thought that leads to progress that ultimately serves our patients.”
The new policy of the AMA insists on specialized medical boards to organize exams in states without limiting abortion laws, to offer remote tests or offer exemptions for doctors. However, the decision to make any changes in the administration of these exams is to those boards. There is no deadline for a decision.
The OB-GYN Council did not respond to requests for comments, but after the public petition of the lawyers who have been general criticized for refusing exam accommodations, the Board said Those personal exams carried out in the national center in Dallas “offer the most fair, honest, safe and standardized assessment.”
The OB-Gyn board emphasized that the Texas laws apply to doctors who are licensed in Texas and in particular in Texas, in particular for medical care. And it noted that the exam dates are being held under wraps and that “there have been no incidents of damage to candidates or examiners in thousands of personal investigations.”
However, officers of the Democratic State have warned in their petition that “the web of confusing and punitive state restrictions creates a legal minefield for medical care providers.” Texas is one of the states that have Forbidden Doctors From providing gender -confirming care to transgender young people, and that has it Reportedly done To get records of medical facilities and professionals in other states who may have provided that kind of care to Texans.
The office of the attorney general of Texas did not respond to requests for comment.
States as California And New York Laws have to block doctors to be extradited under the laws of other states and to prevent evidence against them. But authorities that require these laws to be used can still mean long -term legal proceedings.
“We live at a time when we have seen actions from executive authorities that do not necessarily quadrate with what we thought the rules have provided,” said Rebouché.
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