Comments on: The pressures of being an abortion provider

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:16:00 +0000

For it to be a doctor-patient relationship, there must be a doctor. The prohibition on killing is central to the ethical dimensions of the definition of the physicians. These are not physicians and this is not medical care.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:17:00 +0000

Some abortion providers have Doctor of Medicine degrees and a medical license, but they are not physicians. That profession has existed long before university degrees and predates the governments issuing the licenses by thousands of years. It is defined ethically by the Hippocratic oath which forbids abortion or other taking of life. It is not defined by technology which is ever changing. Those who use medical technology outside that oath are outside the profession.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:54:00 +0000

It seems this law allows the dangerous intrusion of truth into the doctor-patient relationship.

By: mudphudder

mudphudder — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:22:00 +0000

So to make things worse, I recently read a blurb in the New England Journal of Medicine about a new informed-consent law for abortion in effect as of July in the state of South Dakota which requires a physician to essentially read out a state-mandated "script" to any woman seeking an abortion, which includes "That the abortion will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being" and "That the abortion will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being" amongst other things. This law has been challenged a number of times by Planned Parenthood with the most recent appeal being rejected. I will be curious to see how it fares in the Supreme Court. I am all for informed consent but I find this law to allow dangerous intrusion of religious and political views into the doctor-patient relationship.