A New York Doctor Was Baffled by Her Defense Attorney Husband’s Job, Until She Realized: ‘I’m Married to a Placenta’
In a perfect world, those who deserve punishment would go straight to jail. When Dr. Fatima Daoud (@doctordaoud) discussed the justice system with her husband, she believed it was a lawyer’s job to incriminate a client who’s guilty of a crime. Her husband, who is a defense attorney, disagreed, and that’s when she came to a silly, yet scientific, conclusion.
“I don’t know anything about the law. He doesn’t know anything about medicine. It works,” Daoud explained on TikTok. She’s a board-certified OBGYN from New York. Meanwhile, her husband is a criminal defense attorney.
Daoud said that she presented a theoretical dilemma to her husband. She asked if he needs to disclose his client’s guilt to the prosecutor in good faith. He told her no, even if he can connect the dots and come to the conclusion that his client is guilty, it’s not his job to tell anybody about it.
“But how is that fair?”
“But how is that fair? Like, you need to present all the facts. That’s the only way you can get justice,” the doctor said.
“My job is not justice,” her husband supposedly pushed back at the time. Daoud was confused by her husband’s response. She was under the assumption that it’s part of an attorney’s duty to uphold justice and fairness.
“My job is to represent my client’s interests. My job is not to do the prosecutor’s job for them,” he further explained. Her husband also said that it was his job to give a list of names, witnesses, and evidence. But as Daoud says, her husband believes that it’s the prosecutor’s duty to sift through these testimonies and witnesses to get to the truth of the matter.
“But it doesn’t seem fair!” The doctor expressed.
“Fair is the job of the court system. When everybody does their job, that is what is ‘fair,'” her husband reasoned. The doctor was still confused, pointing out this means that the guilty could go unpunished. She noted that at this point, her husband was getting annoyed. But he continued to explain that his client has the right against self-incrimination, as everyone else does. He’s just doing his job, which is to represent his client and defend them in court.
Daoud couldn’t reconcile her husband’s reasoning until she put it in scientific terms.
“And then it hit me. I’m married to a placenta,” Daoud said in a shocking twist.
A defense attorney and a placenta aren’t so different after all
“A placenta has one job to do. That placenta needs to add sugar to the baby. It doesn’t care how insulin-resistant it makes the mom, even if it gives the mom gestational diabetes. It’s not her job – glycemic control is not her job,” Daoud said. In parallel to her husband’s explanation, the logic started falling into place.
Essentially, a lawyer serves their client and ascertains that the rules of court are upheld. In a similar vein, the placenta serves to nourish the fetus. Both have a role in the system, but they work for the benefit of one.
“As an OBGYN, who has never met a placenta that I have ever trusted, all of our fighting makes sense,” Daoud quipped. While the justice system has its flaws, having the right attorney can assure proper representation and save someone from an unimaginably deadly situation.
(featured images: Pavel Danilyuk, Dr. Fatima Daoud, Sora Shimazaki)
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