Dr. Robin Armstrong MD - Galveston CO. Commissioner Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Six, twenty three or time here in Houston's Morning US,
Doctor Robin Armstrong joins us. We're going to talk about
an article we saw in the Federalist about how we
have twenty two states in the District of Columbia that
have shield laws. These shield laws protect doctors providing abortion
to women in other states. Would they to those states
including explicit mail order protections? So could these shield laws

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be used for doctors who want to send medication for
assisted suicide or transgender surgeries, both of which would be
illegal here in Texas? And if they're sending it from
a blue state to a red state, would they be protected,
Doctor Armstrong, You're in the medical field, you know better
than anybody else. How are these shield laws being used currently?

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And can they be used to protect people who want
to send these types of drugs into Texas?

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Well, Yes they can. They're being used right now. It
predominantly in the abortion space for the morning after appeals,
where where people could take them and induce an abortion.
These pills are are not legal in the state of Texas,
but many of these blue states are wanting to export
their values to Texas, and so certainly they can be

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spread out. These can use in other areas as well.
They can be used to send puberty blockers potentially to
underage children, which which Blue states also think is okay
and acceptable to do it without parental consent. They could
also be used to potentially send suicide drugs. You know,
we have eleven states now who have a physicians assisted

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suicide and so these could be done. And in Canada
for instance, right now, they're trying to make it to
where twelve year olds could actually have access to these
drugs to kill themselves if they think they're they're depressed.
And so it's it's shameful what the left is pushing.
But they're wanting us to also not just tolerate their values,

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but they want us to activate them in our own
lives and they want us to celebrate them as well.
And so it just the solution to this has to
be a federal involvement to where we have to get
the Feds involved to prevent them from doing this, because
if not, they's just going to be unrest But you know,

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Texas is not going to tolerate this happening in our
state and then corrupting our children in this way.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
I don't mean to put you on the spot for
this next question. But I was in Michigan when doctor
Jakovorkin was doing his thing, and of course that was
highly controversial at the time. Assisted suicide, And I understand
exactly what you're saying about kids. Nobody wants drugs being
sent to kids who are depressed or think they are depressed,
or have some other issue that is worthy of suicide

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and ending a young life. But I would, And again
I don't mean to put you on the spot with
the question, but I think assisted suicide exists in hospitals,
even in States life Texas, for people who are old
and are in the process of dying and are in
pain and need the little help to cross over to
the other side. I think that happens all the time,

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don't you.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
Now it doesn't happen. No, it's not assisted suicide. I
mean in that sense, it's not euthanasia. What it is
is it's a form of hospice care, which is you know,
that's dying naturally with dignity. You know. I think that
people should not have to die in pain or discomfort.
So I think keeping people comfortable is one thing. I

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think assisting them to die and actively participating giving them
drugs that will actively kill them. I think that that's
a different thing. So that's not happening in Texas today.
This is giving them medications like potassium or cyanide or
something to actively kill them. And so that's definitely not

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the case. And so I think that we cannot allow
that to happen. We can't cross that rub of conceict
once we go there, there's a slippery slope that that
that leads us to doing this for for for young
people and for children and underage folks, and so I
think we have to draw the line there. I think
in Texas we have. I think in some states they've
allowed it. But but I think that that that definitely

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there's a difference between keeping keep people comfortable and then
and then assisting them to die.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
So what should happen to, you know, to try to
curb the problem. If if if we don't have the
legal ability to prevent this from other states from sending
this material into Texas, if if the shield laws are
protecting them, what needs to happen. I guess we need
much a federal law that would ban all shield laws.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Well, well, there are laws today that that that prevent
people from I mean, it's it's all it's a federalist
issue now, it really is. It's a state rights issue.
And so red states ought to have the ability to
not participate in things that that that they believe are
are legal and that they have decided as a society
societal norm in those states that that that that is

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something they don't want to do, and I we have
to have that right. And I think federally the law,
there are laws that exist today that that that can
charge these folks. You can sue them civilly as well.
You can see those physicians. And then I think that
there ought to be an ability to I think they're
breaking a federal crime when they when they when they
do this against another state's rights. And so I I

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believe that those laws exist today. They haven't been used
very often, but I think now since the Democrats are
always pressing the envelope and trying to do things radical
and outside of the box, I think we have to
start enforcing those laws.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
All right, Armstrong, thank you always appreciate it, Doctor Robin
Armstrong