Texas Senate Passes Bill Allowing OBs To Keep Info From Pregnant Women
Source: Huff post
03/21/2017 02:32 pm ET | Updated 1 hour ago
Texas Senate Passes Bill Allowing OBs To Keep Info From Pregnant Women
Opponents say it would let doctors lie to parents-to-be.
.................Senate Bill 25, which will now be sent to the Texas House, prevents parents from suing their medical provider if their baby is born with disabilities, even if that doctor discovered the condition during routine prenatal testing and failed to inform the parents.
The architects of the so-called wrongful-birth bill have argued it would protect children with disabilities and prevent doctors from facing unnecessary lawsuits. It is unacceptable that doctors can be penalized for embracing the sanctity of life, Senator Brandon Creighton (R-TX) said in a press release when he introduced the legislation last fall.
But reproductive rights advocates have been relentless in their criticism of the measure, arguing that it would effectively make it lawful for a care provider who is opposed to abortion to avoid prenatal testing, downplay test results or even lie to patients about results if they believe those patients might consider terminating a pregnancy. .............................
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/texas-senate-passes-bill-allowing-obs-to-keep-info-from-pregnant-women_us_58d0870fe4b00705db521fb2?
I know this is Texas, but this is beyond the pale!!
Caroline O.? @RVAwonk 29m29 minutes ago
The bill prevents parents from suing if their doctor knowingly withholds information about fetal anomalies detected during prenatal testing.
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Caroline O.? @RVAwonk 36m36 minutes ago
WOW -> The Texas Senate just passed a bill that would let OBs "lie to pregnant women without consequences."
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hibbing
(10,076 posts)gopiscrap
(23,673 posts)mpcamb
(2,855 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Freethinker65
(9,929 posts)If I was an insurance provider, I would refuse to cover it if the results were to be disregarded. The same might hold true for many ultrasounds. Insurance companies should drop these OBGYNs from their networks.
OldHippieChick
(2,434 posts)to the 50's - if we're lucky. Otherwise, it's the 30's.
briv1016
(1,570 posts)Ilsa
(61,675 posts)Losing your fellowship, certification, advanced practice license (nurses), etc should be enough to persuade specialists not to exercise this stupid option.
More_Cowbell
(2,190 posts)Texas: Bad state? Or Worst State Ever?
Ilsa
(61,675 posts)Heartless bastards. I wish Mexico would take them back, but I doubt Mexico would have them.
Wuddles440
(1,098 posts)get any more insane, they somehow manage to do just that. Utterly despicable!
cstanleytech
(26,080 posts)avebury
(10,946 posts)then any parents victimized by an OB should make sure that their story is distributed widely to warn other pregnant women to stay away from the POS OB. Social Media would be a good forum for tearing about his/her practice. Actions still do have consequences.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)Ilsa
(61,675 posts)If my insurance is paying for it, I demand to see the results.
If Medicaid is paying for a test on my body, I demand to see the results.
Red Mountain
(1,704 posts)And I'm waiting for the part that guarantees the medical needs of the child born under this policy (who might have been aborted) is provided care by the state for the rest of their natural lives.
That follows, right? Maybe the Doctors with Strong Moral Convictions (SMC) will step up and pay for the care? They'd be morally obligated, right?
So many questions.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Because when my wife became pregnant after we were told it was impossible we learned that the position of the fetus could very well have caused her death. And there was really no good chance for the fetus to even come to term.
Had the doctor at the time kept that from us and my wife had died, I may very well have killed him in my anger. As you might imagine, we were both pretty much emotional basket cases at the time anyway.
Do not get me wrong, I am against the death penalty and have not been in a fight since I was in college, and that guy needed his ass kicked. I just cannot imagine the anger I would feel if that had happened.
uppityperson
(115,674 posts)onenote
(42,374 posts)Original provision:
ec. 71A.001. WRONGFUL BIRTH.. (a) A cause of action may
not arise, and damages may not be awarded, on behalf of any person,
based on the claim that but for the act or omission of another, a
person would not have been permitted to have been born alive but
would have been aborted.
Newly added section:
(b) This section may not be construed to eliminate any duty
of a physician or other health care practitioner under any other
applicable law
does this save it? don't know, since i don't know what other "applicable law" exists in Texas that requires doctors to give information to patients.
joshdawg
(2,637 posts)republicans control state government.