Posted on 11/19/2004 2:33:51 AM PST by andie74
Yet the SAME "ethics" allow for abortions to be performed as if it is nothing more than a tonsillectomy!
What "Hippocrats"
Don't doctors participate in executions all the time? Who pronounces the executee dead? Who starts the poison drip for lethal injections?
These "doctors" are liberal activists opposed to executing murderers. Ernie Fletcher signed the warrants, not in his capacity as a physician but as Governor Of Kentucky sworn to uphold the laws of his state. Fletcher broke no laws nor did he violate the Hippocratic Oath - which in any case says nothing about executing those duly convicted of murder.
That was kind of my thinking...
And it isn't unlawful if the state issues the death penalty.
Notice that it is the New York psychiatrist with his boxers in a wad.
"Yet the SAME "ethics" allow for abortions to be performed as if it is nothing more than a tonsillectomy!
What "Hippocrats"'
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The original Hippocratic oath makes no bones about the subject of abortion and euthanasia:
"I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody who asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect. Similarly I will not give to a woman an abortive remedy. In purity and holiness I will guard my life and my art."
It is sheer cheek of these characters to try and threated this governors medical license but you know libs, anything that might work, they will toss up.
Exactly. The Hippocratic Oath forbids a physician from HASTENING the death of an innocent person. It is silent about what physicians should do in a situation in which a condemned person is to be put to death. The AMA guidelines speak more to a politically correct liberal position on the death penalty than they do about the ethics of a physician's conduct in that situation.
Abortion doctors once again get a pass.
We don't see any fuss from the legacy media about it. Innocent babies are not as big an ethical dilemma as soulless murderers on Death Row are.
Kerry voter.
My son was taught in public school that the stages of pregnancy are proof of evolution. There is the tadpole stage, the monkey stage, etc. So it isn't really killing a baby, but an animal, you see.
Yet, somehow, I am sure that most women wouldn't choose to carry a death row inmate for nine months over a fetus at whatever stage in the game.
"Kerry voter."
LOL, you know THAT! Wait'll his queen Hillary! lets him down by being pro-death penalty when she runs for pres.
Most of the key points have been made by other posts. The big problem is education and the willful intellectual dishonesty and moral obtuseness of the Left Wing. They cannot, and dare not, admit to themselves that an unborn "fetus" is a living child.
If they admit that then they have to admit they support elective homocide just for the convenience of a mother who thinks she made a mistake. It might not be a mistake in the eyes of God, maybe this new life has potential to benfit all of mankind and be part of His plan.
I was proud of Mel Gibson when he recently told Diane Sawyer that she once was a simple mass of cells and that it was no more ethical to harvest her embryonic stem cells that it would be to take the cells of any other living person.
No one can watch a film or video tape of a partial birth abortion and not fully understand they just watched the taking of a human life. Left Wing Liberals must close their eyes and pretend all they are seeing is a simple operation like the removal of tonsils. This is not a matter of religion so much as a matter of simple honesty which of course is a tenet of all religions. The AMA never seems to worry about how many lives their members take every year in abortions but they will make life hard for Gov. Ernie Fletcher of Kentucky because he is a doctor. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn) is also a doctor and next the AMA could take away his license if he does not vote the way they demand.
With malpract. rates the way they are, he mite not be too concerned. And who pronounces the condemned dead? A doc.?
Either a doctor or a coroner.
What a freaking non-story! Notice it is all built around a statement by an activist retired shrink from New York.
Totally...but apparently the opinions of an 82-year old New York psychiatrist is enough to pass for serious news these days...enough to impeach someone and/or strip one's medical license.
A PSYCHIATRIST?!!!! PULLEASE!! Dr. Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson can tell you all about the genesis of that profession..Read his book, "The Assault on Truth." Let me tell you..I know KY. I grew up there..You know the saying, "Don't mess with Texas." It is doubly true for KY. To the liberals who want to punish Govenor Fletcher by taking his medical license for not supporting their sick ideologies..You will NOT succeed. Kentucky has huge conservative support and it is rather intolerant of liberals who try to change things through the power of "elites." Sue Wiley..This would be a good topic for you to discuss on your program..
"State Rep. Jim Wayne, a Democrat, said of the governor: "It's curious he will keep his no-new-taxes pledge but will violate his Hippocratic oath. I'm not sure how he sleeps at night with this kind of decision."
Representative, I am not sure how you sleep at night with your oppressive political ideology.
Fletcher was not acting as a physician, but as a governor. Some liberal is stretching very hard to make this case.
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