Posted on 10/19/2019 3:44:17 AM PDT by Kaslin
We unfairly give way too much authority and credibility to medical associations. They’re comprised of people who are no more moral or ethical than the rest of the human race. Heinous acts have been committed in the name of “medical science” throughout history: Shark Island, Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, Nazi Science Experiments, Gosnell’s Supercoil Experiment, Puerto Rico Birth Control Experiment, Philadelphia Prison Experiments, Children with Cerebral Palsy at Sonoma State Hospital, University of Iowa ‘Monster Study,’ and many more.
So why do we accept their blatant political activism disguised as healthcare?
The American Medical Association (AMA) just released one of the most ludicrous defenses of abortion ever, entitled: “Ban on standard D&E abortion procedure is unsafe, unwarranted.” Killing our children is unsafe and unwarranted. But, when it comes to abortion, the AMA isn’t interested in humanity but histrionics. In its political opposition to Kentucky’s H.B. 454 (“An Act Relating to the Human Rights of Unborn Children and Declaring An Emergency”), the AMA laments that pro-life laws put “patients at serious and unnecessary risk.” Isn’t that what abortion does to any human being on which it is committed? Significantly increasing risk of preterm births (a major cause of birth defects), triple-negative breast cancer, adverse mental health consequences, and killing millions of America’s youngest patients…aren’t these negative outcomes unnecessary?
How many years and how many millions of lives destroyed will it take for the AMA to do the same regarding abortion?
It took until 2008 for the AMA to formerly apologize for over a century of systemic racism targeting black doctors and preventing them from joining the nation’s (mis)leading medical society. Black physicians had to create their own organization called the National Medical Association (NMA).
Sadly, the NMA has abandoned facts for fiction, too, when it comes to abortion—the leading killer in the black community with rates up to 5 times higher than the majority population. When did a negative health disparity become something to defend? Deaths of unborn black lives, via abortion, are 69 times higher than HIV deaths, 31 times higher than all homicides, and nearly 4 times higher than both cancer and heart disease deaths.
Despite this, the NMA promotes Planned Parenthood—an organization birthed in eugenic racism and elitism. The abortion giant kills an estimated 250 unborn black lives every day. The late trailblazing Dr. Mildred Jefferson, who became the first black women to graduate from Harvard and first women to become a general surgeon at Boston University Medical Center, denounced Planned Parenthood and its eugenic DNA. She decried that Roe: “…gave to my profession an almost unlimited license to kill.” In a 1978 article in Ebony, she called out the blatant racism of the abortion industry, saying: “I would guess that the abortionists have done more to get rid of generations and cripple others than all of the years of slavery and lynchings.”
Yet, the NMA falsely and bizarrely claims that pro-life bills challenging Roe, especially in the black community, are “fraught with issues that are severely detrimental to the health of mother or child.” Isn’t killing the child “detrimental” to the child? Isn’t harming a woman and increasing her risks of triple negative breast cancer and negative mental health outcomes “detrimental”? An induced first trimester abortion is, according to the National Academies of Sciences, a known medical risk factor associated with preterm births. Isn’t a disparity in preterm births (a leading cause of infant mortality), which is three times higher among black women, “detrimental” to mother and child?
Similarly, the AMA complains that Kentucky’s pro-life bill (are we really squabbling over how we kill our posterity) “criminalizes the state’s primary second-trimester abortion method without safe, available, and reliable alternatives.” Safe? Not killing anyone, which is available to everyone, is safe. Reliable alternatives? Women deserve reliable alternatives like completely free pregnancy support, maternity homes, and adoption.
AMA (aka the Abortion Misinformation Association) sums up its extremism in this statement: “…medical literature shows that a fetus likely cannot experience pain at any gestational age, because it is kept in a sleep-like state by environmental factors in the uterus, including certain hormones and low oxygen levels.” Really? So the day before a child is born, she is so asleep that she wouldn’t feel her body being ripped apart? Never mind the increasing number of studies showing that unborn babies can feel pain as early as 20 weeks gestation. It’s strange, too. Guess the AMA never heard of fetal anesthesia, done for purposes of pain management, for surgeries on unborn children.
Trust us. We’re medical professionals.
Nope. Not without scrutiny. America, pursue that second (fact-based) opinion.
I’ll trust those, like the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG), who see every human life—born and unborn—as a patient. I will trust those who don’t see induced death as a “medical procedure.” I’ll trust former abortionists, like Dr. Anthony Levatino, who say abortion is never medically necessary.
I’ll trust those who speak truth and defend human life, no matter the consequences to their “professional” reputations. People and principles are always more important than politics and profit.
When I was in Med School in the 70s we only had one retard who repeated retarded things like “healthcare for people not profit”. When I went to a National meeting for Residents ten years ago they were 100% behind it. 100%. I couldn’t beleive it. That is how successful the libtards have been. You might be able to trust your doctor about antibiotics or whatever but I wouldn’t listen to a damn thing they say about politics.
As for the AMA read what Phylis Schlafly wrote years ago. The AMA has NEVER represented doctors and that rag they publish is a joke and has been for 50 years.
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I thought it was still the case that the vast majority of doctors refuse to perform abortions. If this is the case, how does the AMA end up with such an organizational position? Do the docs need to take their association back from paid staff?Has an activist minority hijacked yet another institution from an inattentive and unengaged majority?
The AMA is a leftist political organization widely laughed at by most physicians I know — even the liberal ones-
How does the AMA get away with claiming they “represent physicians” when over 980% of their operating funds come directly from the Federal Government?
AMA much like the DOE, government control for your own good
The medical profession has a long history of opposing alternative healing professions.
While always claiming public safety as its reason for the attacks, the true reasons often involve protecting their monopoly of the healthcare market.
Deep State Education has corrupted EVERYTHING.
One of the first question that comes to my mind in such stories, when an organization goes off the rails, has to do with the governance structure. How are policy statements developed and adopted? Who actually calls the shots? There are many organizations where the nominal members have long since lost any effective control. If members are free to leave, that's not a serious problem. But if the organization has insinuated itself into professional training and credentialing, it becomes a problem. If the organization becomes a gatekeeper, control over the machinery matters a great deal.
The AMA has no authority over med school’s certifications, no authority over licensing physicians or certification. It is strictly for lobbying Congress “on behalf” of physicians. But over 90% of their operating costs come from the US Taxpayer.
If all doctors are paid the same why try your best to be better and get paid more. Bad doctors then end up in areas where there are few doctors.
I’ve had the distinct displeasure of having been sent to, to many D grade doctors. You can’t rely on the scores on their sites as they are usually fake and no way to verify them. Cornea doc failed to tell me the M. glands in the eye lids were clogged. They failed over many years to tell me my Heart was Enlarged with a Mitral Valve leak, called it Palpation’s. Thumb surgeon destroyed the Fine motor skills in my Dominate hand. Nor do they read your health history. I take Synthroid and it doesn’t mix well with some other meds. Cardio has all forms of Fenatayl blacklisted as it slows my heart to much. anesthesiologist used it any way. Hard time waking me up.
I canceled my AMA membership in 2009. Can’t say I’ve missed it. I also got tired of the incessant liberal editorials in the NEJM. Haven’t miss that, either. With computer databases and medical news aggregators there is no need to give these people a penny, and it is very easy to stay up to date.
I do worry about the loss of Hippocratic values with the modern American physician. It doesn’t affect me as a physician but it will very likely affect me as a patient.
Read Paul Star’s 1978 “The Social Transformation of American Medicine”. No way to understand what we have now without this read.
The original Hippocratic oath included a prohibition on inducing abortion. That was amended away recently.
When was the AMA ever about healthcare?
They should just quit the pretense and merge with PP.
Our taxpayer dollars at work!
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