I hadn’t looked at the text before. It looks to me like these lines above all deal with a specific liability problem in most of the ban laws.
Those ban laws that include exceptions define them so poorly that physicians are unable to determine on their own if the exception applies or not. They insert lawyers, insurance companies, judges, and all kinds of liability law into the determination if an exception applies. Which effectively negates the exception. Obviously done that way on purpose so that there isn’t really an exception.
That text from the amendment seems very clear (to me) that it is putting any determination directly in the physician’s hands. The one with the expert medical knowledge. The goal looks to be to remove lawyers from the discussion.
I’m pretty sure that per GQP “policy” abortions are only okay if a rich, white, Republican man finds the pregnancy inconvenient or embarrassing. But that’s one of the few remaining quiet bits they aren’t trumpeting at full blast, so maybe there’s some wriggle room in there for someone who is only three of the four.
This is unacceptable language - there is no such thing.
It’s a zygote, embryo or fetus until the time of birth. There is a reason we celebrate birth days instead of conception days and why childbirth is a “miracle”. A million and one things can go terribly wrong with each pregnancy. Most of us will miscarry at least once, many of us will not even know it happened because it happened within the first month after conception.
Sarcasm and satire are hard to detect in a text environment, but just to be sure you know: that line (Henry VI, said by Dirk the Butcher, so Shakespear didn’t actually say that, a character in one of his plays did) refers to the first step by a potential tyrant. This was not a suggestion, it was a warning.
