Speaker 1: So this is the expected result. Of what is happening nationally with abortion rights and
with Roe v Wade. We talked about last week how this was a concern. This was something that was
expected to happen and now it is happening. Texas hospitals are refusing to see people with serious
pregnancy issues for fear of violating post Roe abortion ban, according to a medical group. We
talked about it ten days ago. And much like with other things people wrote in saying, David, that's
hypothetical. David, that's theoretical. Well, it's now reportedly happening. Check this out.
The Texas Medical Association says some hospitals are refusing emergency care for
pregnancy complications. They fear violating the near-total abortion ban in Texas. The group said
a woman was refused treatment for her ectopic pregnancy until it eventually ruptured. This
is part of the Dallas Morning News. In a letter to the Texas Medical Board seen by the newspaper, the
association said it received numerous complaints that hospitals were blocking doctors from giving
pregnant people medically necessary care, which includes ending a pregnancy. Remember that when
I first reported on this, some of the responses were, David, that's not going to happen because
there are exceptions in these bills. And as I pointed out, the medical exceptions in the Texas
abortion bill really are up to the discretion of the doctor and can easily lead to gray area
scenarios where the doctors are afraid of being second guessed not only by lawyers, by by but by
politicians sued for the actions that they decide to take. And even if it would apparently be legal,
and even if you fought it and defend yourself and got a lawyer and ultimately prevail,
what doctor wants to deal with that, even if you believe you will ultimately come up on the right
side of the law? Do you really want to be dealing with that for years? Because that's how long a
lot of these things will take. So the exceptions explanation is bogus. The article goes on to say,
According to the paper, the letter described one case of a woman who had an ectopic pregnancy
which allows the pregnancy that grows in the fallopian tubes will never be viable but will
be life threatening. She was said to have been refused treatment until her pregnancy
ruptured. When you delay or prevent care in that scenario, it creates a substantial risk for the
patient's future reproductive ability and poses a serious risk to the patient's immediate physical
well-being. Understand that with this condition. A doctors know this is not going to ultimately lead
to a live human. I don't even know the words to you. It's just not. And the correct thing
in these situations is to assist in terminating the pregnancy. If you don't. Not only can you
put the pregnant woman at health risk, you can also jeopardize her ability to even have future
healthy babies. And doctors are saying, even though that's the case, the risk to me legally
feels so great that we may and in this case did refuse treatment. The forced birth people
keep emailing me saying, Oh, you're fearmongering about that. You're fearmongering about that.
And of course, it's now happening exactly as predicted. And by the way, you know, for all
of the claims that they are pro-life. When the mother dies, if it's before the fetus is viable,
the fetus dies, too. Not exactly pro-life to say two deaths. Instead of what they believe to be
one. And when you think about what's happening in Texas, it doesn't really sound like a developed
country. I mean, zoom out. I tweeted about this. If I told you there is a place on this planet,
it has a notably higher infant mortality rate than much of the developed world. Talking about Texas,
doctors are afraid of treating women with pregnancy complications because there's crazy
anti-abortion laws inspired by the religion of the people passing them, which makes the doctors
worried they'll get arrested for providing care. Talking about Texas. And also, they're working
in facilities in hospitals whose power might go out because they are dependent on generators,
in some cases because they've got this isolated power grid without redundancy. Now they have
that by choice, not by necessity. There are lots of parts of the world where what I just
described is not by choice. Most people would not assume that that's the state of Texas. When
I give you those three things higher than than most of the developed world, infant mortality
of doctors fearing, giving people the medical treatment they need for fear of arrest and worries
about the power going out because of an isolated power grid. I don't know what most people would
think, but most people would not think that it's a state in the United States. That's what's going on
in Texas. And it's completely predictable. And it wasn't just us predicting it. It's now happening