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Abortion’s Tricky Past

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Abortion's Tricky Past

It is time we teach common law in medical school. It is far more important than the fundamentals of clinical medicine. Indeed, the very basis for the many recent health policy changes is rooted in common law tradition, including the justification for overturning Roe v. Wade through the Dobbs ruling. These legal precedents have far-reaching implications, shaping healthcare policy, patient care, and even healthcare insurance practices for years to come.

The effects have reverberated across the nation and will be felt for decades in policy and patient care. Already states are looking to overturn other recently afforded health liberties. In Alabama, the state’s Attorney General Steve Marshall urged a federal court to drop its block on the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth.

He argues the Constitution does not protect such care. It is a common refrain for laws that challenge controversial health policies. And it hinges on one legal theory, one that is technically right in how the Constitution is intended to be interpreted, but egregiously wrong in how it affects modern healthcare.

Common law, which forms the foundation for how we understand the Constitution, was a miracle in its day. It espoused logic and reasoning at a time when kings ordained law through divine intervention. But for all its strengths, it remains beholden to antiquated notions of society found in the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance.

Like how women do not deserve the same rights as men, how interracial marriages are ungodly, and how homosexuality is a sin. These beliefs went away as we advanced technologically and furthered our understanding of medicine. But the legal reasoning that justified the notions in the first place never left.

In the context of modern healthcare, clinging to outdated legal reasoning poses challenges to healthcare policy, system management, and patient care. Advancing towards an equitable, inclusive healthcare system requires reconciling legal interpretations with contemporary medical ethics and societal values, embracing innovations in healthcare, and fostering inclusivity in policy and practice.

In fact, they were embedded in the constitutional basis for most modern healthcare laws. The Constitution assumes we all have unlimited rights and liberties ordained by a higher power; and the government’s role, through the administration of separate branches of power, is to restrict those liberties only as much as is needed to protect the public.

According to the Constitution, the government can only restrict rights, nothing more. Common law determines what those rights are in the first place and, for all practical purposes, recognizes what is and what is not a healthcare right or healthcare policy topic for the Constitution.

This is why we see arguments that claim the Constitution does not protect the right to an abortion carry muster – the common law framework never acknowledged that right, and therefore the Constitution has no means of restricting it in the name of public safety. As far as the Constitution goes, there was never a right to restrict in the first place.

This logic applies not only to abortion, but to transgender rights, miscegenation laws, and laws that dictate how members of the same sex marry or live. It is the most powerful and commonly used line of legal reasoning to justify laws that conflict with modern healthcare.

Yet, instead of combating the legal reasoning itself, most would rather protest in the streets, or project a clinical vignette of what would hypothetically happen to a patient, or attack those who uphold this line of legal reasoning.

None of these tactics have worked in the past. And none of them will work now. To fight against antiquated legal thinking that proves harmful to modern medicine, you need a stronger line of legal reasoning based on sound clinical principles.

Luckily, there is a basis for this. We find it in both the Constitution and in the Amendments. And it is about time healthcare adopts them.

Principles like Equal Protection Under the Law, Fundamental Fairness, and The Right to Bodily Autonomy all underscore a legal reasoning for laws that align with modern medicine. But few health policy leaders structure laws or legal arguments in such a way. Instead, they opt for concepts like the Right to Privacy, which is an awkward term that does not exist in the Constitution – and proved toothless under strong legal scrutiny, as we all bore witness to.

Until healthcare policy makers and clinical providers develop legal arguments based on sound constitutional logic that support modern medicine, in which access to care means access to all forms of healthcare, we will continue to see laws and court rulings that run afoul of our fundamental understandings of medicine.

This underscores the importance of teaching common law in medical school to equip future healthcare professionals with the necessary legal acumen to navigate and shape healthcare policy, system management, and insurance practices in alignment with modern medical principles and innovations in Healthcare.

This is why we should teach common law in medical school.

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Dr. Jay K Joshi serves as the editor-in-chief of Daily Remedy. He is a serial entrepreneur and sought after thought-leader for matters related to healthcare innovation and medical jurisprudence. He has published articles on a variety of healthcare topics in both peer-reviewed journals and trade publications. His legal writings include amicus curiae briefs prepared for prominent federal healthcare cases.

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In this episode of the Daily Remedy Podcast, Dr. Joshi discusses the rapidly changing landscape of healthcare laws and trends, emphasizing the importance of understanding the distinction between statutory and case law. The conversation highlights the role of case law in shaping healthcare practices and encourages physicians to engage in legal advocacy by writing legal briefs to influence case law outcomes. The episode underscores the need for physicians to actively participate in the legal processes that govern their practice.

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Healthcare trends are rapidly changing and confusing.
Understanding statutory and case law is crucial for physicians.
Case law can overturn existing statutory laws.
Physicians can influence healthcare law through legal briefs.
Writing legal briefs doesn't require extensive legal knowledge.
Narrative formats can be effective in legal briefs.
Physicians should express their perspectives in legal matters.
Engagement in legal advocacy is essential for physicians.
The interpretation of case law affects medical practice.
Physicians need to be part of the legal conversation.
Physicians: Write thy amicus briefs!
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