Dr. Damla Karsan, a Houston-based obstetrics and gynecology specialist, says she experiences the everyday intimidation that comes as a result of Texas’s restrictive abortion ban when caring for patients whose health conditions are at risk due to complicated pregnancies. Karsan found herself and one of these patients, Kate Cox, at...
Dr. Damla Karsan at a press conference on Thursday, where local advocates and lawmakers gathered to discuss the U.S. Supreme Court's oral arguments.Dr. Damla Karsan, a Houston-based obstetrics and gynecology specialist, says she experiences the everyday intimidation that comes as a result of Texas’s restrictive abortion ban when caring for patients whose health conditions are at risk due to complicated pregnancies.
“Patients are getting sicker every day, every week that passes,” Karsan said. So, we need to be able to respond in real time and do what the standard of care is. That’s all we are asking for. To provide the standard of care to our patients.” Joshua Turner, chief of constitutional litigation and policy for the Idaho Attorney General's Office, argued that the state was within its jurisdiction to decide how to practice medicine. Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan pelted Turner with hypothetical cases of medical emergencies related to pregnancy, asking him what would happen in these situations.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who is notably against abortion, occasionally veered to her left-leaning colleagues’ sides to question why the high-risk hypotheticals were not exempted under the state’s ban if they posed the possibility of death. Donatti said what happens in the Idaho case could affect what occurs in a similar case in Texas that is currently pending in the courts. Unlike in Idaho, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton initiated a lawsuit against the Biden Administration, arguing that the federal government could not require hospitals to offer emergency abortions.
Most recently, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals sided with Texas. Donatti said if the ruling is challenged and the case makes it up to the country’s highest court, it would likely not be heard before October 2025. A decision on the Idaho case could come sometime this June. “Our training teaches us to mitigate risks. These are standards of care based on minimizing the risk to the patient and preserving their health and life,” Karsan said. “Not waiting until they’re on death’s door to intervene, and that’s really what the laws have done.”
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