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Betrayal of the Hippocratic Oath
We live in a time when doctors are not only willing to kill babies in the womb up until they’re born, but they are also trying to punish other doctors who don’t agree with them. This state of affairs is only one more example of how the woke medical profession has allowed itself to abandon its principles and ethics.
The most recent battle occurred when the American Association of Pro-life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG) was excluded from a conference near Washington, D.C., sponsored by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Council on Resident Education. The pro-life association wasn’t told that they were excluded until they arrived at the conference:
Dr. Christina Francis incoming CEO of the pro-life group, said the doctors weren’t told about the cancellation until after arriving in Maryland, even though the organization booked the booth last year and has participated in the conference for the last 15 years.
She pushed back with a video posted Monday on Twitter challenging the CEO of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists to a debate on the health consequences of elective abortion.
You may think that this decision was a slight that was annoying but could be ignored. But larger issues dominate the fight:
Doctors who rely on educational certifications from formerly prestigious credentialing medical associations are being threatened with a form of de-platforming. The loss of needed certifications can destroy a medical career. It has a chilling effect on open and free discussion and honest patient treatment.
In the face of this dismissal of unborn life, doctors and medical students who don’t conform, or at least don’t remain silent about being pro-life, may lose their ability to practice medicine if radical groups like the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists get their way in silencing them. State medical boards rely on input from these third-party associations to help determine who is fit to practice medicine. Prestige and promotion are often tied to such training and certification.
ACOG accuses the banned organization of spreading “misinformation,” the common woke trope used.
I visited the website of both organizations, and the contrast was informative. Here is the main section of the ACOG mission statement:
ACOG’s mission is to support our members to improve the lives of all people seeking obstetric and gynecologic care, their families, and communities.
ACOG’s vision is an equitable world in which exceptional and respectful obstetric and gynecologic care is accessible to all.
Available to all except for babies.
Contrast the ACOG mission with AAPLOG’s:
The reason AAPLOG exists is to encourage and equip its members and other concerned medical practitioners to provide an evidence-based rationale for defending the lives of both the pregnant mother and her pre-born child.
We aim to make known the evidence-based effects of abortion on women as well as the scientific fact that human life begins at the moment of fertilization, with the goal that all women, regardless of race, creed or national origin, will be empowered to make healthy and life-affirming choices. AAPLOG’s organizational vision is to be the pre-eminent medical voice that informs the medical community, policy makers and the public on the importance of declining to use death as a therapeutic option, which respects the dignity of all human life and prohibits the taking of a life by a medical practitioner, including the lives of pre-born children.
Both websites elaborate on their statements, although only AAPLOG lists the mission statement on its first page and also states its belief in the Hippocratic oath.
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I am still trying to absorb the fact that ACOG members, practitioners who are tasked above any other medical doctors to bring new life into the world, seem to have no qualms about killing babies. That they are prepared to punish AAPLOG for standing by its own standards and for treasuring both the mothers and babies that will be born. That they are threatening the future of new doctors who will realize that they can’t acknowledge their belief in the sanctity of life if they want to help babies be born.
It is a travesty that boggles the mind.
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And yet, here we are.
Even back in the mid 1970’s, babies born with birth defects of a kind that indicated the little person would survive only a few weeks were snatched away from the parents, and left to die in a room unattended, without even water being offered.
i had friends who kidnapped their own baby back from the hospital, once they found out that the end of life care for their son would be so inhumane. (He was born with hydroencephaletic syndrome, and could only live some weeks.)
Although it is possible that the doctors who persuaded parents to leave their “defective” babies with the hospital really thought they were sparing the parents a world of suffering from becoming attached to an infant who was not going to survive, I suspect money has a lot to do with this behavior.
A newborn’s organs are in huge demand. Once the parents keep control of their baby, they also tend to want to bury the child and not bring it back to have its organs harvested.
With the infant’s burial occurring, the hospital has lost the amount of money each organ would have brought it as pure profit.
The vaccine industry needs aborted fetuses – the more developed the babe-to-be then the better. A five month old fetus is worth X, while a nine month old fetus, which you and I would call a baby, is worth at least 5 times as much.
The almost full term fetus is also needed for organ harvesting.
On top of all this barbaric torture, it is my understanding that the babies are kept alive while the heart and other very valuable organs are harvested.
The Bible says a great deal about worshipping false pagan gods.
There are many versions of the Hippocratic Oath among the multitude of medical schools. Some don’t mention G-d(s) at all. There are also carve-outs for performing abortion.
Be careful what you wish for.
If you take an oath to preserve a principle and then amend the principle, taking the new oath is the definition of ‘fatuous.’