Let's see: Pre-law, no problems. Post-law, the Doctors fear doing their job due to being charged with crimes and fines because the laws are ambiguous.
I'm not going through every single post you made to give a response, but will comment accordingly here. Sorry for length. tl;dr
I'll start with the end first and simply say this is agenda driven crap. If you read the entire article, the couple was offered money to travel and go get their abortion. They claim they didn't because "the couple worried that they would get arrested" and "we didn’t know if we’d go to jail. We didn’t know if we’d be fined." Bull ****ing shit. The article even says the law doesn't provide such provisions. So, they are completely in the clear and the rest is a lesson in creative writing to push a perspective.
The key to this particular couple are the specifics and what's not said. Of course, CNN finds an article to write about a very, very narrow, exceptional set of facts and circumstances, as opposed to the real goal of being able to demand an abortion at anytime up to the moment of birth.
First, this has nothing to do with the mom's health because everything written about her referenced the
potential problems she could have developed but
didn't. So that's not part of the discussion. This was all about the fetus and its medical situation.
This fetus/baby had a condition known as Potter syndrome. The problem in terms of the law is, and to be fair to CNN as was laid out in the article, Potter syndrome is not always fatal. That's the very grey and murky area of this one particular example.
In other words, this was an incredibly narrow set of facts regarding one example of medical debate. There are examples of babies being born with Potter syndrome that live, while many or most only live for some period of time (this one lived for an hour and a half), even if it is a very poor quality of life and short existence. Thus, this was NOT an example of a still born or a miscarriage, etc. And this is when the abortion debate gets into line drawing. You find out late in the pregnancy that the child will have some type of lifelong medical condition (at one end of the spectrum) or has brown eyes instead of blue (at the other end of the spectrum)? Get an abortion. How and where do you draw that line???? The abortion on demand crowd's answer is that there is no line: it's always the mother's body and always the mother's choice.
One last thing I want to point out that CNN makes a jump on and plays creatively. The ultrasound revealed this issue and the Dorberts' obstetrician referred them to a specialist.
According to the parents, the specialist agreed with their desire to induce delivery and not wait to go full term, but had to check with the administration. Again,
according to the parents, at 27 weeks, the
obstetrician (the original doctor, not the specialist) said he/she would not perform an abortion. So, they carried to term, delivered, and the child died shortly after birth.
Everything about this sequence and who said what is
per the Dorberts. There is not a single statement from the ob, the specialist, or the hospital. We have no idea what the doctors actual position was on all of this and whether it was hospital officials/bean counters/lawyers who dictated this (as opposed to it all being pinned on doctor's fear/inability and having their hands tied). We also don't know how or if an "inducement" is the same as an abortion under Florida law because the article fails to address it. The only quote besides the parents is mom's GP (not the ob or specialist) who went on social media about them and had nothing to do with actually performing an abortion/inducement.
In short, this was CNN playing to the base the same as Fox or anyone else does to keep driving clicks. Incidentally, anyone who wants to learn more about this condition, here is an informative link that isn't driven by abortion politics.
Potter syndrome is a rare condition that affects kidney growth and function during fetal development, which causes too little amniotic fluid in the uterus.
my.clevelandclinic.org
