Fig Leaves For Doctors

NY Governor Kathy Hochul signed a new bill that had very little media coverage. Besides one article in the NY Times, there was no other national media that covered this new law. The law has to do with doctors being able to sign certain prescriptions without having to attach their name to them. From the governor's own website it states: “Governor Kathy Hochul today signed legislation to enable providers who prescribe medications used to perform abortions to request that the dispensing pharmacy print the name of their practice on prescription labels instead of their personal name. Despite attacks on reproductive rights from other states and the federal government, Governor Hochul affirmed her commitment that New York will remain a safe harbor for anyone seeking or providing reproductive health care.”

What this means is that if someone uses a telehealth service to get abortion medication, the doctor can prescribe the medicine without signing their name to it. Telehealth has become more and more popular since the pandemic. Patients can now seek a doctor’s counsel through an 800 number, zoom, or the internet without ever stepping into the office. And this can be done across state lines. And with the overturning of Roe V Wade, many states are now restricting or outright banning abortions. To bypass this, women seeking an abortion in a state where it is illegal will use telehealth to reach a doctor in a state that allows abortion. This doctor would then prescribe the abortion medicine at the pharmacy right by the patient. Even though there was no physical examination and the doctor is not even in the same state, they can and have been prescribing theses medicines for people seeking abortion.

Well now these states have been clapping back in response to this. Some have gone after the doctors, stating they have broken state laws and will prosecute the doctors. This happened to a NY doctor just this past month. World News reported, “The lawsuit was filed Thursday in the District Court of Collin County, Texas, according to the state attorney general’s office. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton alleges that New York-based Margaret Daley Carpenter violated several provisions of Texas law when she prescribed an abortion drug regimen of mifepristone and misoprostol for a 20-year-old woman.” This is why Governor Hochul is now coming out with this legislation.

She is claiming that this protects the doctors. But does it really? Let us put aside the abortion issue for just a moment. The whole reason you need a doctors signature is so that there is accountability to what is being prescribed. This is because the doctor is supposed to know what should or should not be prescribed for the patient, more than the patient. He is to be the expert and know what is good and harmful for every patient based on their medical history. What if the doctor prescribes the wrong pill or wrong dosage and it does medical harm to the woman? Should not that doctor be held accountable? Should there not be an investigation and possible suspension and removal of their license to practice medicine? Even a liberal feminist would agree to that!

In fact that is the whole reason Texas went after this doctor in NY. The article in World continues, “In June, the woman was taken to the hospital with a hemorrhage or severe bleeding, according to the lawsuit. In addition to the mother’s complications, the procedure resulted in the death of her 9-week-old unborn child, Paxton said.” And this has been becoming all too common. By using telehealth, the doctor is not doing a physical examination of the women. The doctor can only go by what the patient is telling them. What if the woman is wrong about how far along she is in her pregnancy? What if the doctor doesn’t have all of her medical history? What medications is she on? Other medical factors that may impact what the doctor prescribes? And unfortunately there have been many women who have taken these scripts to the detriment of their health.

But after looking at this logically, lets focus on what this really is: covering up sin. This is just a way for doctors to feel more comfortable and safe to kill someone. By signing this bill, Governor Hochul has sewed together the proverbial fig leaves to cover up what the doctors have done. The doctors have committed the sin and she is there to cover up their spiritual nakedness. She said as much when signing this law: “Reproductive freedom will always be protected in the State of New York — and I’ll never back down from this fight,” Governor Hochul said. “I’m taking action to strengthen protections for health care professionals and their patients, ensuring New York is a safe haven for anyone providing or receiving reproductive care. At a time when fundamental rights are under attack across the country, we are doubling down on our commitment to safeguard access to reproductive health care and defend those on the frontlines of this battle.”

She can play semantics all she wants. What is reproductive about killing a baby in the womb? What is freeing about a child dying? This is more twisting of words and covering of actions to make a pile of manure seem like a bed of flowers. But God will not be mocked. Whatever one sows, that is what they will reap. And her vigilance to kill children has reaped unforeseen consequences of harming the mother now. And it doesn’t matter what laws she enacts. It won't make a difference how she covers up the atrocities she has created. God knows and God help her and those who do not repent.