{"id":251010,"date":"2021-08-15T11:41:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T16:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=251010"},"modified":"2021-08-18T08:29:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T13:29:37","slug":"abortion-doctors-force-abortionists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-doctors-force-abortionists\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion advocates want to force all doctors to become abortionists"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Abortion advocates are making a push to force pro-life doctors and medical professionals to partake in abortions against their own consciences. While pro-abortion groups, such as the Florida Interfaith Coalition for Reproductive Health and Justice, claim<\/a> a woman’s so-called right to abortion is based on her own “personal values,” they fail to see the hypocrisy in their unwillingness to support medical professionals who don’t want to participate in abortion based on their<\/em> own “personal values.”<\/p>\n

According to data<\/a> compiled by the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute, 46 states allow some health care providers to opt out of committing abortions. This includes 44 states that allow entire health care institutions to refuse to commit abortions. Along with federal laws, including the 1973 Church Amendments that prevent hospitals from discriminating against conscientious objectors, most medical professionals are currently able to practice medicine based on their own moral and religious beliefs \u2014 including the belief that abortion is not health care.<\/p>\n

Whittling away at conscience protections<\/strong><\/p>\n

One study suggests that about 85% of OB\/GYNs<\/a> do not commit abortions, while the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute found that about 83% of OB\/GYNs<\/a> in private practice don’t commit abortions. In addition, the pro-abortion American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists found that fewer than one in four OBGYNs<\/a> are willing to commit abortions. The fact that doctors won’t participate in abortion shines a very negative light on the abortion industry’s claim that it is basic health care. This profitable industry wants to put an end to that by outlawing conscientious objection rights for medical professionals, and increasing abortion training in medical schools.<\/p>\n

Recently, the Biden-Harris Department of Justice\u00a0dropped<\/a>\u00a0a case against the University of Vermont Medical Center, which had allegedly forced multiple medical professionals to participate in abortions. At least 10 nurses were reportedly forced to partake in about 20 abortions against their will. One nurse was so traumatized after she was tricked into entering the operating room (OR) under false pretenses \u2014 and then threatened with job loss if she didn’t stay \u2014 that she quit her job and her career<\/em> as an OR nurse. The hospital denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

In February of this year, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed a law<\/a> that removed conscience protections for pro-life medical workers in the state. There is concern<\/a> that quality doctors will leave New Mexico over that new law, worsening<\/a> the state’s already existing doctor shortage.<\/p>\n

In 2019, after the Trump administration expanded conscience protections for medical workers, the nation’s largest abortion business, Planned Parenthood, spoke out<\/a> against such protections. “In allowing doctors, nurses, and even receptionists to deny care to patients, the Trump-Pence administration is providing legal cover for discrimination,” said then-president Leana Wen. In other words, her argument is that it is discriminatory to refuse participation in an elective procedure to kill a preborn child, but forcing<\/em> doctors to kill preborn children is not<\/em> discriminatory. Incidentally, many medical professionals have stated that\u00a0abortion is never medically necessary<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When the abortion industry gains influence and control over future doctors<\/strong><\/p>\n

The push to force medical professionals to participate in abortions has begun to infiltrate medical schools, where the abortion industry hopes to train all doctors to view abortion as health care. Austin Clark was a fourth-year medical student at the University of Louisville School of Medicine set to graduate in May 2021. But the school dismissed him in July 2020, following his participation in the school’s pro-life group. Clark filed a lawsuit<\/a> against the school for discriminating against him for his pro-life beliefs.<\/p>\n

As it turns out, The University of Louisville School of Medicine is facing calls for an investigation, according to Students for Life of America<\/a>, for its connection to local abortion business EMW Women’s Surgical Center. Dr. Ernest Marshall owns the facility, and has been a professor at the university medical school for 40 years.\u00a0The college\u00a0speaks openly about training medical students<\/a> to commit abortions through the Ryan Residency<\/a>, a program set up \u201cto provide formal training in contraception, family planning and medical\/surgical pregnancy termination.\u201d It doesn’t take a stretch of the imagination to see that pro-life students would be met with some hostility.<\/p>\n

This “turn all doctors into abortionists” mentality is not just happening in the U.S. The same battle is being waged in Canada as abortion enthusiasts complain that a doctor’s refusal to commit abortions violates a woman’s human rights. Pro-abortion writer Tracey Lindeman wrote<\/a>, “What’s clear is that conscientious objection, in Canada and elsewhere, isn’t purely a question of religious or moral convictions. Instead… it is wrapped up in doctor ego and discrimination in medicine. Barriers to adequate medical care have serious, documented health consequences. Yet, we can’t seem to shake the idea that doctors’ conscience rights and patients’ human rights are equal and can be balanced…”<\/p>\n

Lindeman argued that a doctor giving a patient contact information for an abortion facility equated to a refusal to provide care. She referred to this as an act of “shaming” the woman, and attempting to change her mind by telling her to think about her decision and talk it over with her family.<\/p>\n

It’s clear that what the abortion lobby wants is for every country to accept abortion as being of equal status with all actual health care procedures, and for every health care worker to participate as if these procedures are a routine part of health care. But genuine health care never intentionally takes a human life.<\/p>\n

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