{"id":280478,"date":"2022-11-29T10:45:37","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T16:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=280478"},"modified":"2022-11-28T17:59:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T23:59:05","slug":"abortion-denial-medical-neglect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-denial-medical-neglect\/","title":{"rendered":"Media tries to blame pro-life laws in cases of medical neglect"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Since the Supreme Court opinion in\u00a0Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization<\/em> overturned Roe v. Wade<\/em> in June, the media has been steadily releasing horror stories of women allegedly harmed by pro-life laws enacted by states to protect preborn children from abortion. However, these stories of apparent abortion denial actually appear to be instances of medical neglect on the part of pro-abortion doctors. Now, a leading medical association is showing support for this type of negligence.<\/p>\n

The AMA and abortion<\/strong><\/p>\n

The American Medical Association (AMA), a professional association for physicians and a lobbying group, maintains a Code of Medical Ethics that is widely seen as the standard to which American doctors should adhere. Its\u00a0latest guidance<\/a>, however, erroneously affirms that induced abortion (the intentional killing of a preborn human being) is health care, and encourages doctors to break the law in pro-life states.<\/p>\n

At the group’s interim meeting in November, AMA President Jack Resneck said doctors should be willing to commit abortions illegally. \u201cCaught between good medicine and bad law, physicians struggle to meet their ethical duties to patients\u2019 health and well-being, while attempting to comply with reckless government interference in the practice of medicine that is dangerous to the health of our patients,\u201d he said. \u201cUnder extraordinary circumstances, the ethical guidelines of the profession support physician conduct that sides with their patient\u2019s safety and health, acknowledging that this may conflict with legal constraints that limit access to abortion or reproductive care.”<\/p>\n

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But the intentional killing of a human being cannot logically be considered\u00a0health care<\/em>. While it is sometimes medically necessary to induce a premature delivery<\/em> at a time when the preborn child is too young to survive outside the womb, this is not<\/em> an abortion, as the intent of premature delivery is to save the life of the mother \u2014 not to ensure that her child dies<\/em>.\u00a0The American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG)\u00a0explained<\/a>:<\/p>\n

There are times when separating the mother and her unborn child is necessary to save the life of the mother, even if the unborn child is too premature to live. In those tragic cases, if possible the life of the baby will be attempted to be preserved, and if not possible, the body of the unborn child is treated with respect, recognizing the humanity of the life which is lost in the separation. In contrast, the purpose of an induced abortion is to produce a dead baby. <\/em><\/p>\n

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defined legal induced abortion as an \u201cintervention performed by a licensed clinician (e.g., a physician, nurse-midwife, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant) that is intended to terminate a suspected or known ongoing intrauterine pregnancy and produce a non-viable fetus at any gestational age.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Most of the medical emergencies currently featured in the media have occurred during the second trimester when the most common abortion procedure committed is a D&E, or dilation and evacuation. This procedure may take\u00a0several days<\/em> to complete and involves dismembering<\/a> the preborn child by tearing off her arms and legs before crushing her skull. If done as a same-day procedure, the risks to the woman increase due to accelerated dilation.<\/p>\n

An emergency C-section, in contrast, can be performed in about an hour.<\/p>\n