I'm a lawyer who does criminal defense as a healthy part of my practice...so uhm I think I have a basis in reality.
How do you stop "in the interest of the mother" ? If you don't know, that language you're referring to is in one of the companion cases to Roe v. Wade, Webster, btw.
You stop that, by explainting that the "interest of the mother" is a life or death decision. It's as simple as that. No, really. If it's a choice between the mother and the child, which one do we have a greater chance of saving? Most mothers would rather save their child rather than themselves. But let's say they don't want to. The point is you'd rather save the person who has the greater chance.
I don't know why you're building this one part into some mission impossible. It's quite easy to understand.
Even the Catholic church has a history of protecting the mother in these type of circumstances. Read up.
Here.
The problem isn't how do you enforce a law like this...it's getting people to value human life when they can't see it hidden away in a woman's womb.
You can find a doctor to claim "in the best interest of the mother" just about anywhere.
I also work criminal defense cases as a licensed PI for 30 years.
And I also do civil litigation and wrongful death. I used to do a lot of comp cases 25 years ago.
Counselor, how come you do not acknowledge the FACT that doctor's opinion varies like the wind? Don't you know that you can pay doctors to say whatever you want? Respectfully, if you don't then you haven't practiced very long.
I have worked hundreds of cases where one doctor comes in and testifies "The standard of care Dr. Kilgore gave was excellent for XYZ reasons. The doctor did everything right and nothing wrong." Next doctor comes in and testifies "Doctor Kilgore was clearly negligent and his negligence and lack of following XYZ prodcedures, etc., etc., caused the patient to die."
Now which is it counselor? Fact is doctors BS all the time and that BS stands up most all of the time. The prosecution will need another doctor to state that the mother of the aborted fetus was not in medical danger and the doctor that claimed she was was wrong in his diagnosis.
If you do not know that there are thousands of doctors out there that would do this and do it daily then take a look at the plaintiffs docket your next trip to the civil clerk's office and watch TV one afternoon and see the dozens of Personal Injury lawyers soliciting cases for fender benders where there is nothing wrong with 90% of the "injured".
Doctors fuel those soft tissue cases and 9 times out of ten there are no real injuries. What, doctors "doctoring" up the file? Surely you jest!!
But back to making abortion illegal. A doctor to performthe abortion "in the best interest of the mother's medical safety" would be just as easy to find as the ones the personal injury lawyers send their clients to. And they will stamp that on every abortion they perform. And the state prosecutor would need ANOTHER DOCTOR to state that it was not a medical necessity.
Now counselor, what doctor is going to do that and how credible would they be to a jury when that doctor NEVER SAW THE PATIENT?