Judge Says Doctors Can Argue Abortion Is Not Health Care
A Teton County judge is allowing four pro-life doctors to argue in court that abortion is not health care. Judge Melissa Owens filed an order last week allowing Wyoming Drs. Timothy Hallinan and David M. Lind (both retired), and Drs. Michale Nelson and Samantha Michelena to file an amicus brief in a lawsuit seeking to overturn the Wyoming’s two abortion bans. The pro-life amicus brief consists of four Wyoming doctors arguing that abortion is not health care, and that the plaintiffs’ ideas about obstetrics would impose a one-patient paradigm, rather than an obstetrician’s concern for two patients in a pregnancy, and radically change health care in Wyoming. Read more...