Joseph Hawthorne

Firstly, regulating against medical treatment that is proven to be safe and effective and recommended by licensed medical professionals is in no way the right or duty of an elected official with no medical training. It is borderline a criminal act of practicing medicine without a license. Secondly, as no competent doctor could ever approve of these restrictions, who determines when a medical emergency is happening? It is a fact of record even when such blatantly unconstitutional forced birth laws include openings for medical emergency that those limitations are always so restricting that a woman will have already suffered permanent harm before the doctor is safe to do their duty to provide necessary care. Thirdly, the falsely named pregnancy resource centers are religious anti-choice organizations, all of which have been proven in courts to regularly lied to women about their medical and legal options to deceive them into being forced to give birth, provide no actual resources or help to those pregnant women and regularly also further abuse women of color who are tricked into consulting with them. And even if they weren't proven fraudsters they are still RELIGIOUS organizations and it is blatantly unconstitutional to use the power of the law to allow them to interfere in anyone's life choices who does not willingly choose to associate with them.