More religion-based OB/GYN practices are popping up:
The center is one of a small but growing number of practices around the country that tailor the care they provide to the religious beliefs of their doctors, shunning birth-control and morning-after pills, IUDs and other contraceptive devices, sterilizations, and abortions, as well as in vitro fertilization. Instead, doctors offer “natural family planning” — teaching couples to monitor a woman’s temperature and other bodily signals to time intercourse.
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If thats the kind of practice they want to run, and they have enough patients to keep them in the black, then whats wrong with that? I would love to have an OB like that, in fact i’ve searched in my region for one. I’m tired of my OB pushing birth control pills at me every single visit, when not only am I philisophically opposed to them, i’m not even a good candidate physiologically (history of high blood pressure, migraine with aura).
If physicians wish to avoid the headaches and heartaches of the abortion and BCP patients, more power to them for taking that route.
Those docs will find a ready clientele for their practice.
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