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>Text of Letter from CMA to ACOG on Conscience
>(The press release is here and the LifeEthics coverage is here.) December 7, 2007American College of Obstetricians and GynecologyDouglas W. Laube, MD, PresidentPO Box 96920Washington, D.C. 20090-6920 Dear Dr. Laube:The undersigned individuals and organizations urge the repudiation and withdrawal of the recently published position statement of The Committee on Ethics of the American College of … Continue reading
>CMDA to ACOG: Stop Attack on Conscience
>The Christian Medical and Dental Association has released a statement condemning the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists for ACOG’s position statement (earlier coverage, here and here) that would require all doctors who object to abortion to either change their practice or make sure that they work next to a willing abortionist: Physicians call on … Continue reading
Colorado’s Human Life Amendment
Although Time Magazine, the Denver Post and the blogs insist on calling it the “fertilized egg rights” law, Colorado’s State Supreme Court has approved the wording for a proposed “Human Life Amendment.” The proponents of the amendment need 76,000 signatures in order to get the initiative on the November, 2008 ballot. The Chicago Tribune reporter … Continue reading
>"embryo uber alles"
>Ellen Goodman reminds us that it ain’t over yet. As she said in her November 20, 2007 op-ed piece (Free registration at the Boston Globe may be necessary), Democrats, on the other hand, may breathe a sigh of regret. The stem-cell controversy gave pro-choicers an iconic image of their enemy: someone who put the embryo … Continue reading
Governments threaten physicians for anti-abortion policy
In our Nation, with our First Amendment, why doesn’t someone threaten all the bodies placing restrictions on conscience clauses and against religious-based practices? In Portugal, the Health Minister has been threatening to take the Portugal Medical Association to Court for its policy that states that doctors should respect human life from fertilization to natural death. … Continue reading
>Court upholds Texas Prenatal Protection Act
>In 2003, the Texas Legislature passed a Prenatal Protection Act, which named the unborn children of Texas individuals from fertilization to natural death. Texas law also calls the “individual” a “person.” With the world the way it is after Roe versus Wade, and because most of us have compassion for a woman who believes she … Continue reading
>Human dignity: What it is
>Whether it’s a genetic result of evolution or the way we are designed by a Creator, even very young children seem to have a sense that it’s important to understand that there are consequences to infringing rights of other people before they can express “That’s not fair!.” My attempt a couple of days ago to … Continue reading
>AMA editorial on Partial Birth Abortion Ban
>I would like to respond to the Commentary by Lawrence O. Gostin, JD, “Abortion Politics: Clinical Freedom, Trust in the Judiciary, and the Autonomy of Women.” in the Journal of the American Medical Association, October 3, 2007.(behind a pay wall) Declaring that the Supreme Court’s consideration of the “respect for the dignity of human life” … Continue reading
>Abortion restrictions can be healthy
>The last couple of weeks I’ve been getting ready for the American Academy of Family Physicians’ Annual Scientific Assembly and the hearing of several controversial resolutions at our Academy’s Congress of Delegates, held last week in Chicago, Illinois. One of the resolutions called for the protection of “physician-patient confidentiality” by restricting the information that insurance … Continue reading
>Democrats for Life (yes, they exist – barely)
>Joe Carter at the blog, Evangelical Outpost, reviews a new book (Democrats for Life: Pro-Life Politics and the Silenced Majority by Kristen Day)about the Democrats for Life, which covers how the Democrats became the Party of the Abortion Rights Movement. The true difference between Republicans and Democrats is best demonstrated by taking a look at … Continue reading
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