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Having grown up in Tennessee, they absolutely will be punished.
They will be shunned by society, they will be attacked privately for even being rumored to have assisted in an abortion.
Pastors, politicians, will spread stories that a doctor participated in an abortion, and that will lead to 'vigilante justice'.
On the plus side, there will be some minority of doctors who give appropriate medical care anyway, no matter the repercussions.
They will also be punished because of they ever intervene to protect the life of the mother, they'll find themselves in court trying to prove that the mother's life was in danger.
Yeah, but the state board SHOULD protect them, at least until the inbred good ol boys pass more laws saying a fetus is a 100% viable legal human at conception and until they're born there's no way they could ever die because God would never let a baby die and if you disagree it's because you're a satan worshipping baby murderer and this is intent.
Their politicians are... They're evil, but at the same time they don't understand how they could ever be wrong about anything, so the logic goes down all kinds of narcissistic corridors.
Will the state board stop an AG from arresting them?
Absolutely not.
But they will testify as experts that it was necessary lifesaving care.
They'll be prosecuted, but they'll probably get off, though again, it is the south.
Why would this be any different than how it was before Roe was overturned? They were doing the same thing then as what they're now allowed to do again because of this current ruling.
Because it was a lost culture war issue then, now they're the winners and everyone who disagrees with them is on the weak side.
That's like saying "why would black people do worse in the south once reconstruction was ended, they still had the amendments?", which is true, but basically meaningless in reality, you've made it clear you can't enforce anything.
These people now know that if they do commit vigilantism, it will go through local and state courts, probably be upheld under some excuse that they were "protecting life", and finally if it got to SCoTUS potentially pass because of Dobbs.