{"id":246015,"date":"2021-06-15T12:44:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T17:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=246015"},"modified":"2021-06-14T18:28:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T23:28:08","slug":"american-college-obstetricians-gynecologists-will-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/american-college-obstetricians-gynecologists-will-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-life group: ACOG’s pro-abortion activism doesn’t represent its membership"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has become a pro-abortion advocacy organization and is no longer objective on the abortion issue, according to a video and website launched by the\u00a0American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists<\/a>\u00a0(AAPLOG). Their website,\u00a0NotMyACOG.com<\/a>, which tracks ACOG’s path to abortion advocacy, claims that the ACOG “does not adequately represent its thousands of members.”<\/p>\n

ACOG was originally founded as the American Academy of Obstetrics and Gynecology in 1951 before being renamed.\u00a0According AAPLOG’s video seen below, at that time ACOG\u00a0adhered to the Hippocratic Oath, which forbids abortion. But by the late 1960s, the organization openly endorsed abortion and by 1971 “a narrow pro-abortion leadership majority” had “seized control of ACOG,” the video claims.<\/p>\n

The video also claims that ACOG’s abortion drive has been a “top-down push” as evidenced by the fact that ACOG’s leadership has “never surveyed the membership on this [abortion] issue.”<\/p>\n