Physicians, both as individuals and as a profession, should stand with their patients. They should make it clear that they will not perform procedures, such as ultrasound examinations, unless they are medically indicated and desired by their patients. And they should refuse to provide inaccurate information about the consequences of abortion, or to follow any other prepared script in counseling their patients, particularly when it involves treating women like children.

Such acts of civil disobedience by individual doctors should be only the starting point. The profession as a whole, as represented by its professional organizations, needs to become involved, so that physicians are not left to fend for themselves.

It is time for the American Medical Association and, particularly, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists to take a public position on behalf of the patients they are pledged to serve, and to support their members in doing so.

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It’s appalling to me that politicians believe they know how a patient should be treated for this ONE medical procedure. You don’t have a politician telling cardiologists that before a doctor does open heart surgery they have to do X, Y, and Z. Politicians do not have the best interests of the patient at heart. They only want their political agenda to be served. Physicians should not allow something as sacred as healthcare become a political battlefield and I agree that physicians should just stop doing what’s asked.

At the same time, though, a physician could lose their license for not serving a political agenda to their patients and then where will we be? We’ll have even less doctors available to perform these important procedures.

All of this legislation that interferes with medical practices surrounding abortion puts doctors in a very difficult place and none of this should have been allowed to happen in the first place. Politicians are not entitled to interfere with medical decisions that physicians make in the best interests of their patient and it’s appalling that politicians have done so.

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Kate Moss - Vogue UK by Tim Walker, June 2012

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