[Knute]

Yet the SAME "ethics" allow for abortions to be performed as if it is nothing more than a tonsillectomy!
What "Hippocrats"

[jocon307]

Don't doctors participate in executions all the time? Who pronounces the executee dead? Who starts the poison drip for lethal injections?

[goldstategop]

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.

[mtbopfuyn]

Abortion doctors once again get a pass.

[johniegrad]

"I think it's a clear violation," said Dr. Arthur Zitrin, an 86-year-old retired psychiatrist in New York and an outspoken death-penalty opponent.

Kerry voter.

[Waco]

With malpract. rates the way they are, he mite not be too concerned. And who pronounces the condemned dead? A doc.?

[Vigilanteman]

What a freaking non-story! Notice it is all built around a statement by an activist retired shrink from New York.

[jazzlite]

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..

[jazzlite]

"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.

[chainsaw]

Fletcher was not acting as a physician, but as a governor. Some liberal is stretching very hard to make this case.

[RippleFire]

bump

[trebb]

Just a chance to slam a REPUBLICAN Governor - pure hypocrisy...

[MindBender26]

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.

[LRS]

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...

[IncPen]

Analysis, bartman?