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riversedge

(69,713 posts)
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 05:35 PM Mar 2017

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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Texas Senate Passes Bill Allowing OBs To Keep Info From Pregnant Women (Original Post) riversedge Mar 2017 OP
How absolutely awful n/t hibbing Mar 2017 #1
fuck that gopiscrap Mar 2017 #2
Yeah, get it in court tomorrow and strike that shit down! mpcamb Mar 2017 #9
I agree gopiscrap Mar 2017 #10
+1! nt Honeycombe8 Mar 2017 #16
I assume such doctors will not allow for amniocentesis then? Freethinker65 Mar 2017 #3
This is more Trump effect. We are going back OldHippieChick Mar 2017 #4
The ABMS should revoke Board Certification from any doctor found lying to their patients. briv1016 Mar 2017 #5
I think that might be the back door to stopping this insanity. Ilsa Mar 2017 #13
And of course, the GOP is also ensuring that families won't be able to cover the kids' medical care More_Cowbell Mar 2017 #6
Yep. They cut funding for therapies for disabled children. Ilsa Mar 2017 #15
Just when you think they can't... Wuddles440 Mar 2017 #7
I can see this being appealed and thrown out as it completely goes against serving the public good. cstanleytech Mar 2017 #8
If the law cannot be knocked down on apeal avebury Mar 2017 #11
The GOP is all about lying. milestogo Mar 2017 #12
If I'm paying for a test, I demand to see the results. Ilsa Mar 2017 #14
Damn straight Red Mountain Mar 2017 #17
Can we shoot them instead? GulfCoast66 Mar 2017 #18
WTF? K&r for wider exposure uppityperson Mar 2017 #19
They're trying to save it by adding a new provision onenote Mar 2017 #20
This kind of shit happens when joshdawg Mar 2017 #21

Freethinker65

(9,929 posts)
3. I assume such doctors will not allow for amniocentesis then?
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 05:42 PM
Mar 2017

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.

Ilsa

(61,675 posts)
13. I think that might be the back door to stopping this insanity.
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 07:51 PM
Mar 2017

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)
6. And of course, the GOP is also ensuring that families won't be able to cover the kids' medical care
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 05:59 PM
Mar 2017

Texas: Bad state? Or Worst State Ever?

Ilsa

(61,675 posts)
15. Yep. They cut funding for therapies for disabled children.
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 07:54 PM
Mar 2017

Heartless bastards. I wish Mexico would take them back, but I doubt Mexico would have them.

Wuddles440

(1,098 posts)
7. Just when you think they can't...
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 06:12 PM
Mar 2017

get any more insane, they somehow manage to do just that. Utterly despicable!

avebury

(10,946 posts)
11. If the law cannot be knocked down on apeal
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 06:56 PM
Mar 2017

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.

Ilsa

(61,675 posts)
14. If I'm paying for a test, I demand to see the results.
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 07:53 PM
Mar 2017

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)
17. Damn straight
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 08:49 PM
Mar 2017

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)
18. Can we shoot them instead?
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 10:11 PM
Mar 2017

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.

onenote

(42,374 posts)
20. They're trying to save it by adding a new provision
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 11:32 PM
Mar 2017

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.

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