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"I was always taught I have two patients: the mother and the baby," he said. "Why would I want to send somebody out to hurt their baby?"

Perfect!

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[Gay State Conservative]

I'm pleasantly surprised by this.I would have bet that a far smaller percentage would have opposed abortion.

[metmom]

The survey also found that 42 percent of physicians opposed prescribing birth control to a minor without parental approval.

Sad that it's not more.

That raises an interesting question... Can doctor write prescriptions to minor and pharmacies fill them without parental permission? Or does that only to harmless body altering drugs like the pill?

[madison10]

Female doctors were more likely to refer women to abortion practitioners than male physicians the study showed.

Women LIKE killing babies?

[brannon]

the American academy of pediatrics has a position statement that all pediatricians should tell teen girls that abortion is an option or refer them to a pediatrician that will. which is why i refuse to join. most pediatricians don't know this.

[Kitten Festival]

Every doctor I know says that when you study unborn babies in medical school, you can't but come up with the full understanding that what's blandly called a fetus on the outside "is life." I've known med students who've actually been drawn to Christianity from secularism as a result of their medical study and the value they place on life from it.

[Right Wing Assault]

How dare they! Lock those doctors up!

There, I've just installed myself as spokesman for the Dems.

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[hocndoc]

Actually, the survey asked whether the docs objected to giving birth control "if the parents do not approve."

Amazingly, only 42 percent object! And some of these would still tell the girl where she could find a doctor to prescribe them. (I would explain, weedle and nag until the girl and the parents agreed or one of us is grounded.)

[Liz]

Nice thread. Thanks for posting it.

A NYT feature awhile back (about doctors' reticence to do abortions) reported that one doctor quipped to another doctor who was performing abortions, "Still killing babies, eh?"

[Nevernow]

I live in Maryland. If I didn't already have a pro-life gyn, I'd probably switch to him. I don't want a doctor that would treat me as anything less than two patients while I was pregnant, and I don't think a pro-choice doctor can possibly do that. This is exactly the attitude all OBGYNs need to have.

I'm surprised that more doctors surveyed weren't against abortion, actually. The first few biology-oriented classes I took got me to believe a fetus is more than a lump of tissue, the ones that came after it just reaffirmed it.

I'm also glad they mentioned he's from Maryland...now people won't say, "Oh it's just doctors in the southwest saying that!" An A from NARAL isn't so liberal.

[Scotswife]

""I was always taught I have two patients: the mother and the baby," he said. "Why would I want to send somebody out to hurt their baby?" "

That says it all.

[maryz]

Haven't heard much about it lately, but a year or two ago, weren't the NAGs screeching for making abortion training mandatory in med school because practicing abortionists were getting long in the tooth and dying off?

[Paved Paradise]

Well, for me, I'm just glad the AMA allows physicians to exercise their own moral volition.

[RKBA Democrat]

The first thing that occurred to me is that now the infanticide crowd will start working to pass legislation requiring physicians to refer patients.

[WV Mountain Mama]

My ob/gyn group was the same. They had the word life in the name of the group and a cross in their logo. They had pictures with scripture in their rooms. They were great, but had to split the practice because of malpractice insurance rates and go to something with an umbrella policy through the major hospital. I doubt if the beliefs of the individual doctors changed when they moved, I still saw them. I always wore a cross, so they never held back on mentioning God, same with the nurses. They were instructed to say happy holidays, but made a point of saying merry Christmas to me when they saw my necklace. :)