Medical Groups Oppose Women's Health Program Rule
Updated Aug. 15, 10 a.m.:
State Rep. Sarah Davis, R-Houston, has joined a coalition of medical groups in opposition to a proposed Department of State Health Services rule that would ban doctors who participate in the Texas Women's Health Program from discussing abortion with their patients. Davis expressed her concerns in an Aug. 13 letter to Thomas Suehs, executive director of the Health and Human Services Commission.
"Few relationships are as sacred as the doctor-patient relationship," Davis wrote in the letter. "I have been an outspoken critic of any legislation that interferes with this relationship, and oppose any ...
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The fundamentalists need to butt out and let doctors care for their patients in private.
Luisa Inez Newton via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Doctors see so much, give so much. Healing is love, not injustice. Healthcare in America is in the process of changing and I thank heaven for Obamacare & the progress of cutting costs, modernizing health & sharing alike in the well-being of our country.
Martha Dunkelberger via Texas Tribune on Facebook
It's about time we heard from some people who actually give a damn about women's HEALTH concerning, you know....women's health.
Jill Meredith Bergene via Texas Tribune on Facebook
So, that forced sonogram rule....that interferes with the doctor-patient relationship....and it's the state practicing medicine.
Lisa Whitehead
I know it's been said before, but if men could get pregnant there would be 1/2 price abortion coupons in the Sunday paper every week and you'd be able to get one at every titty bar, 24/7/365.
Another 99%
This definitely, smacks of the lanquageod a “repressive government”, forced by religion.
Russell C. Crawford via Texas Tribune on Facebook
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