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Doctors' Conscientious Objection to Abortion Threatened.
Criticism continues to mount in the wake of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' (ACOG) November 2007 report calling for limits on the right of health care workers to conscientiously object to abortion.
Opinions issued by ACOG influence the process for doctors seeking licenses and certification in their medical specialty. In January, the organization that certifies ob/gyn specialists, the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ABOG), issued new regulations that tie recertification to compliance with the ACOG ethics board's opinions.
"This is a raw power play to cripple, and ultimately eliminate from practice, those doctors who hold a conscience conviction on the sanctity of human life, and refuse to have a part in doing, or referring for, the elective, deliberate taking of an unborn human life," the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists wrote in a February 20 statement. The pro-life group "objects strenuously to this attempt by a professional medical organization (ACOG), using 'ethics violations' and 'denial of recertification' as a battering ram to force pro-life doctors into pro-choice compliance."
Secretary of Health and Human Services Mike Leavitt wrote to ABOG in March seeking assurance that pro-life doctors will still be able to refuse to participate in or refer for abortions without putting their certification in jeopardy.
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