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Kentucky Governor, a Doctor, Risks License (Death Penalty)
Yahoo/Associated Press ^ | 11/18/04 | BRETT BARROUQUERE, Associated Press Writer

Posted on 11/19/2004 2:33:51 AM PST by andie74

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To: andie74

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21 posted on 11/19/2004 4:36:14 AM PST by RippleFire ("It was just a scratch")
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To: andie74
Just a chance to slam a REPUBLICAN Governor - pure hypocrisy...
22 posted on 11/19/2004 4:40:54 AM PST by trebb (Ain't God good . . .)
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To: andie74
From an old reporter's perspective, this is a very stupid article.

It's the all too common "some say' article where the liberal reporter tries to create controversy that really isn't there.

"Some say" the world is flat, too!.

From a legal point of view, also, there is no issue. Private associations, even those with regulatory "standing," such as the AMA and ABA, have no power to prevent an elected official from fulfilling a mandated official duty.

This is BS.
23 posted on 11/19/2004 4:48:15 AM PST by MindBender26 (Al Queda, Taliban, Dan Rather, Jessie Jackson, Osama Bin Laden: Same slime, different uniforms.)
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To: andie74

Bull! Just call what governor Fletcher does, "assisted suicide". That made a hero out of "Dr." Jack Kevorkian in the eyes of guys like this 86 year old quack...


24 posted on 11/19/2004 4:56:35 AM PST by LRS
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Analysis, bartman?


25 posted on 11/19/2004 7:20:35 AM PST by IncPen (There is nothing that government can give a man that wasn't taken under threat of force from another)
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All you need to know here is the AMA has been a reliable vessel of liberal ideas and political correctness -- it is an organization wholly in the thrall of every liberal idea that stumbles into view, and used to fancy itself a force for progressive change.

I don't think the organization has the credibilty any more to mount the kind of argument that is being pushed here -- too many of their own members would sit up and take notice if they tried it, and would promptly cancel their memberships.

One little known fact is how few physicians even belong to the AMA any more. For example,here in Illinois membership fell dramatically about 6 yrs ago when the parent organization decoupled county and state medical society membership from AMA membership. That is , it is now possible to belong to the county and state medical societies in Illinois without joining the national AMA. Many doctors took the opportunity to voice their disgust with the national organization, and let their membership lapse. It didn't help that that was about the same time that the AMA entered into a very stupid product endorsement deal with Sunbeam Corporation that embarassed many member physicians.

So I wouldn't look for this little twit psychiatrist from New York to be getting much traction with his loony ideas; the AMA front office is very much worried its going to lose more members if it strays from its central mission -- to promote the interests of its members, and to secondarily promote the advancement of medical knowledge through its educational arm.

26 posted on 11/19/2004 8:10:38 PM PST by BartMan1
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