Dear Abortion Banning Judges...Stay Out Of Medicine

Ethics matters, not just law.

Dear Judges and Lawmakers choosing to regulate the practice of medicine:

Look, I get it, you make the laws. But you don't make biology. I don't do your job because it’s illegal. You don't do mine because you’d have no idea what I do.

We can live without judges. After the fall of civilization, on the other hand, judges and lawyers are just food for zombies.

(Photo by physician-photographer Max Aguilera-Hellweg)

You can't live without doctors, at certain crucial moments. And we don't need your legal opinion to work near where you live. That is a personal choice.

You need to understand, the only reason anyone lives as long as they do is because physicians do extremely complex work with the most complex situations. Having enough of us infuriated is just a bad move for you, personally.

If I was a judge whom tried to make medical care illegal, I'd worry. Your emergency doctor might decide to take the first break of their life. Your surgeon might not close that suture as tight as they …