What would stop brave doctors from providing illegal abortions?

[jmowreader]

We know abortion is a necessary medical service, and properly done abortions carry little risk. This is a serious question: what would stop a doctor from setting up a sterile-enough room in her spare bedroom and offering this service illegally, or establishing a clinic in a state where it's legal and setting up a transport network to make an end run around these Decrees 770?

[HERVEPA]

1. Fear of going to jail. Fear of being sued.

Fear on anti-choicers finding out and targeting them.
Hard enough to find doctors these days to do legal abortions.

[winter is coming]

2. Jail time and the threat of losing their license to practice medicine?

Don't know if such laws are on the books, but if they aren't, they will be.

That doesn't mean that some doctors won't choose to flout the law, but most will do so in secret... which makes it harder for women to find them.

[Myrina]

3. Fear of undercover stings that lead to arrest, loss of license & prison/jail ...

would be a pretty hefty deterrent, I'd think.

[kestrel91316]

5. Fear of being shot to death by a pro-lifer. Because it already keeps a lot of

doctors from offering then when they could.

[SwissTony]

6. All of the above. n/t

[sakabatou]

7. Going to jail, being fined, violence, etc

[HappyMe]

9. Fear of jail, being sued,

being killed, being stripped of the ability to pratice medicine.

[Starry Messenger]

10. Jail, death, loss of medical license.

We're going back to the bad old days of pay through the nose for the dangerous versions of the procedure.

[Ilsa]

11. Fear of losing the license & not having their student loan

debt discharged in bankruptcy. Probably looking at about $250,000 in debt.

And I can tell you who would out them: some middle class sanctimonious bitch who takes her 16 year old pregnant daughter for an illegal abortion. Once the mom knows that her daughter is okay, she turns in the doctor. She'll just say, "Our abortion situation was different. My daughter isn't one of those slutty girls he/she does abortions on."

I'm all for spreading word about other things, like herbs and medicines, that are abortifacients, if abortion becomes illegal in the US.

[byeya]

12. + + +

[Locrian]

15. +++

It would be a constant life looking over your shoulder for the 24/7/365 'outting' by just about ANY of the sanctimonious types.

[galileoreloaded]

13. only something like 15% of docs are willing to perform abortions at all

but i would bet that most of them would make the stretch.

[Sgent]

14. Technical considerations

For 1st trimester abortions the equipment required is fairly basic -- most family physicians and OB/GYN's have the needed supplies in their office already, or can order them easily. It would be easy to setup a facility in a home or otherwise (although there are other issues). Later trimester abortions require access to more complete medical facilities, so a home setup isn't likely.

The real deterrent is the doctor him/her self, and the legal issues.