The United States is now in the throes of a strange and benighted trend that is negatively affecting half the population because in the Republican controlled states politicians, not physicians, are making the medical decisions for females. According to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, as of July 7, 2022, across the entire United States there were only 17 federal physician-legislators (3.1 %, 17/541) and 86 state physician-legislators (1.1 %, 86/7552. 1 So it is irrefutable that the laws being passed to control women are being passed by non-medically trained politicians. It started on 24 June 2022 when the extreme far right majority on the Supreme Court issued the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision that abandoned almost 50 years of precedent established by the Roe v Wade decision and took away the national right to abortion, leaving it up to the individual states as to whether they would permit legal abortion. Almost immediately 14 states, in perhaps the most blatant example of the Great SchismTrendI have ever reported on in the columns, took […]
You can’t have it both ways. The issue is far beyond what governors or legislators do for abortion. Abortion is just the most current and egregious example of the practice. So, you don’t like southern state governors prohibiting women from getting an abortion? Fine. But how many of you are delighted that, for example, the governor of New Jersey requires health care workers to be assaulted with a flu jab to keep their job? Having governmental officials practicing medicine without a license is abhorrent no matter what the circumstances. If you believe an individual should control their body and healthcare that should be the principle. Full stop. You can’t have it both ways folks. If you won’t defend the rights of healthcare workers in New Jersey then don’t whine about what occurs in the southern states. The governmental officials will always justify dictating your healthcare under the excuse that it’s for your own or the public’s good.