The pro-abort crowd has it in for a lot of red states, but at the moment, they seem especially concerned about Texas.
And, being a senior writer for Slate, it’s only natural that someone like Mark Joseph Stern would be concerned as well.
In red states, hospital ethics committees now decide when pregnant patients are close enough to death to justify an abortion.
Here's how these panels make life-or-death judgments where abortion is illegal under all but the most dire circumstances. https://t.co/jzcNOPv03Y @Slate
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) July 29, 2022
Oh.
No way! https://t.co/pJ8qLh0Uzs
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) August 1, 2022
Do you mean to say that the same Mark Joseph Stern who slimed Ilya Shapiro in order to get him fired from Georgetown is lying about something else? Will wonders never cease?!
The anti-abortion movement thinks women and their doctors will lie in order to exploit an exception for the patient's "health." So they have crafted extremely narrow exceptions for the patient's "life," requiring imminent death before termination is legal. https://t.co/jzcNOPv03Y pic.twitter.com/xMYzWD9eWG
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) July 29, 2022
But when are a patient's chances of dying high enough to justify an abortion? 10 percent? 50? 90?
Missouri's abortion ban contains no express exception for ectopic pregnancies. So these patients must wait until an ethics committee decides they're sufficiently likely to die. pic.twitter.com/k8UgVkhYtG
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) July 29, 2022
Vigilante abortion bans, like Texas' S.B. 8, pressure hospital ethics committees to favor preserving the fetus over saving the mother—even if the pregnancy will inevitably fail. Committee members may face liability if they greenlight an emergency abortion. https://t.co/jzcNOPv03Y pic.twitter.com/jUGyAwD9u6
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) July 29, 2022
Texas had a head start on banning abortion thanks to S.B. 8.
That's why so many of these stories involve Texas patients—they were the canaries in the coal mine, the first patients forced to suffer sepsis and hemorrhage before doctors would terminate. https://t.co/jzcNOPv03Y pic.twitter.com/czp8w6WHy6
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) July 29, 2022
Now that more states have outlawed abortion, we're seeing the same crisis play out beyond Texas. Increasingly, hospital ethics panels will decide if pregnant patients with medical emergencies live or die. This is what post-Roe maternity care looks like. https://t.co/jzcNOPv03Y
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) July 29, 2022
Well, Mark, that certainly looks like a lot of words. But are any of them true?
National Review Washington correspondent John McCormack has found at least some that aren’t:
This @mjs_DC article falsely claims Texas abortion law leaves the definition of medical emergency “undefined.”
Here's ACOG (which opposes Texas’s abortion law) citing the definition medical emergency in Texas’s abortion law: https://t.co/uzkyawGdx2https://t.co/37p0oBDu9f 1/ pic.twitter.com/wJc5sCqlSr
— John McCormack (@McCormackJohn) August 1, 2022
Sounds like somebody didn’t do their due diligence before writing about one of the most controversial topics out there.
So Texas’s law does define “medical emergency,” and there’s no requirement to delay treatment in these cases.
That’s critically important.
Listen to Dr. Ingrid Skop, a Texas OB-GYN and senior fellow at the Charlotte Lozier Institute: https://t.co/uzkyawGdx2
— John McCormack (@McCormackJohn) August 1, 2022
Stern offers an incomplete and misleading description of the exception in Missouri’s law: https://t.co/uzkyawGdx2
Texas and Missouri are the only two specific state laws he mentions—and his viral article botches both legal definitions. pic.twitter.com/QkE4SEO7Qk
— John McCormack (@McCormackJohn) August 1, 2022
It’s almost as if Mark Joseph Stern isn’t an honest and trustworthy journalist.
Mark is doing what is typical of him, he's lying……again. Hey Mark do you post anything that is true? https://t.co/ac1wclamrl
— Skydog1971 (@Skydog19711) August 1, 2022
Is his name even Mark Joseph Stern?
Democrats and the media being dishonest about a pro-life law. What a shocker. https://t.co/Xh6u16rZvS
— Jared P. (@JaredPalmgren) August 1, 2022
Why do you lie?https://t.co/j0Fc4o3nP2
— Ben Peterson (@jazzfan71) August 1, 2022
Because they can.
It won't be called out by most fact checking outlets because, of course not. https://t.co/PkXkZZ5FoX
— Some Guy (@JustHereToShare) August 1, 2022
Fact-checking outlets are way too busy white-knighting for progressive congresswomen who pretend to get arrested and debunking obvious memes about Joe Biden.
Most important question now is what can be done to get risk-averse hospitals/lawyers to ensure standard medical care is provided.
Medical associations, medical boards, and attorneys general should use their authority to cut through the misinformation: https://t.co/uzkyawGdx2 pic.twitter.com/4gBiuWZOCO
— John McCormack (@McCormackJohn) August 1, 2022
And Lord knows they’ve got their work cut out for them. For every piece of disinformation about pro-life laws that gets debunked, two more pieces are created and circulated.
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