[Pflienews] PharmFacts E-News Update: Pro-Life ObGyns call for Conscience Rights

Wed Feb 20 13:30:59 MST 2008

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*PharmFacts E-News Update -- 20 Feb 2008 AD #4

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ProLife Ob/Gyns Oppose Attempt to Shut Down Their Conscience Convictions
The American Association of ProLife Obstetricians and Gynecologists 
Responds to the ACOG Promulgated "Limitations of Conscientious Refusal."

MEDIA ADVISORY, Feb. 20 /Christian Newswire/ -- In Nov 07, the (ACOG) 
American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology's Ethics Committee issued 
a formal Opinion titled "The Limits of Conscientious Refusal In 
Reproductive Medicine." This Opinion warns Ob/Gyn doctors that their 
practice pattern can be considered "unethical" by ACOG standards if they 
do not either do abortions, or refer patients desiring an abortion to an 
abortion provider. The Opinion goes so far as to suggest that pro-life 
doctors should locate their office in proximity to an abortion provider, 
for the convenience of such patients. The American Board of Ob/Gyn in 
January 08, published revised standards for doctors seeking 
recertification (which maintains their professional reputation in good 
standing). The revised standards are tied to ACOG Ethics compliance. 
This is a raw power play to cripple, and ultimately eliminate from 
practice, those doctors who hold a conscience conviction on the sanctity 
of human life, and refuse to have a part in doing, or referring for, the 
elective, deliberate taking of an unborn human life.

The American Association of ProLife Obstetricians and Gynecologists 
(AAPLOG) objects strenuously to this attempt, by a professional medical 
organization (ACOG), using "ethics violations" and "denial of 
recertification" as a battering ram, to force pro-life doctors into 
pro-choice compliance. This country has, since its beginnings, honored 
the legitimate conscience convictions of its citizens. Pro-life doctors 
refuse either to electively kill the unborn, or to become an accomplice 
to such killing by referral to an abortionist. This is a legitimate 
conscience conviction held by AAPLOG members, and by many other 
physicians in various specialties.

The Position Statement issued by AAPLOG on Feb 6. 2008, concludes, "... 
it seems that the (ACOG) Ethics Committee does not understand the 
strength and depth of a conscience conviction against the elective, 
deliberate taking of an unborn human life. This is not a negotiable 
issue for those who hold this conviction. The United States Supreme 
Court allowed elective abortion to be a legal right. The U.S. Supreme 
Court is not an infallible moral guide for a person's conscience, as 
evidenced by a previous similar egregious ruling.7 (This references the 
infamous 1857 Dred Scott decision, in which the US Supreme court, by a 
7-2 majority, concluded that Africans are "beings of an inferior order" 
than the white race, and slaves are property devoid of all rights of 
legal redress for grievances. The US Supreme court got it wrong in 1887, 
and they made the same mistake in 1973 in Roe vs. Wade: Unborn children 
are fully human, and are entitled to the same right to life as the rest 
of society.)

The complete AAPLOG Statement may be accessed at 
www.aaplog.org/responsetoacogethicscommittee385. htm 
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Christian Newswire 
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	To: National Desk

Contact: Joe DeCook, MD, American Association of ProLife Obstetricians 
and Gynecologists (AAPLOG), 616-644-5313

# American Association of ProLife Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG) 
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