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ck4829

(35,097 posts)
Wed Dec 13, 2023, 12:42 PM Dec 2023

Introducing the "Abortion is OK in this health performance range" card

The Karnofsky Performance Score (KPS) ranking runs from 100 to 0, where 100 is "perfect" health and 0 is death. Practitioners occasionally assign performance scores in between standard intervals of 10. This scoring system is named after Dr. David A. Karnofsky, who described the scale with Dr. Walter H. Abelmann, Dr. Lloyd F. Craver, and Dr. Joseph H. Burchenal in 1948. The primary purpose of its development was to allow physicians to evaluate a patient's ability to survive chemotherapy for cancer.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_status

I believe it can be used to tell women and doctors when it’s OK to get that abortion. When it officially becomes legal.



Since Texas has been in the news on abortion-related items, I highlighted the zone where it seems to be OK to get an abortion according to Abbott, Paxton, and the Texas Supreme Court. I think I am in the general ballpark here, right?

Do you think they’ll want to sign off on this and print it out, send it to every hospital and Texan, tell them “here is where you can get an abortion”?

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Introducing the "Abortion is OK in this health performance range" card (Original Post) ck4829 Dec 2023 OP
You are, unfortunately, spot on. "Not quite dead" sums it up pretty well RussellCattle Dec 2023 #1
Are you really sure? Laurelin Dec 2023 #2

Laurelin

(539 posts)
2. Are you really sure?
Wed Dec 13, 2023, 03:20 PM
Dec 2023

I think you're being too generous. Moribund doesn't guarantee the brood mare, I mean, human female will die. God can perform miracles.

Abortion might be OK two hours after death. Wait, Jesus was resurrected after 3 days! Let's not be hasty.

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