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Compulsory abortion training. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)

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| May 06, 2002 | COPYRIGHT 2002 American Opinion Publishing, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Hippocrates was the father of modern medicine. For some 2,500 years, physicians have taken the Hippocratic Oath, named for him. In recent decades, however, the oath has been largely abandoned in favor of watered-down alternative vows (or none at all), due in part to the original Hippocratic proviso: "I will not give to a woman an instrument to produce abortion." The pernicious trend has bolstered the transformation of abortion from an evil that physicians should shun into an increasingly accepted aspect of medical care.

On April 4th, for instance, the Associated Press reported that beginning in July, obstetrics and gynecology residents in New York City's 11 public hospitals "will be routinely trained to perform abortions under a program backed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg." Such death education, which has been elective to date, will become mandatory except for doctors-to-be who opt out for moral or religious reasons.

According to AP, the new policy "was ...

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