Posted on 07/09/2021 9:46:04 AM PDT by Marchmain
World Medical Association to cancel 'conscientious objectors' to abortion
The Vatican's top partner in vaccine promotion is threatening the freedom of pro-life doctors to conscientiously object to the murder of preborn babies, the elderly or terminally ill.
Human rights organizations and Catholic bioethicists are condemning as "particularly alarming" the World Medical Association's (WMA's) proposal to revise its International Code of Medical Ethics by introducing a section that will obstruct "conscientious objection."
"This is a serious attempt to overturn the legitimate balance that gives precedence to doctors' freedom of conscience over the practice of acts that are only tolerated by law," the European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ) warned in a statement Saturday.
Vatican, Medical Associations Cooperating
The Pontifical Academy for Life (PAL), which held a joint press conference with the WMA challenging "vaccine hesitancy" earlier on Friday and a joint International Roundtable on Vaccination with the WMA Thursday, has remained tight-lipped on the revision.
At the Friday presser, PAL president Abp. Vincenzo Paglia, WMA council chair Professor Frank Ulrich Montgomery and Dr. Ramin Parsa-Parsi, head of the international department of the German Medical Association (GMA), attacked "anti-vaxxers."
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"The ABC paper also explained how the WMA revision presents "conscientious objection" as "conflicting with 'patient care'" and assumes that "disruption or inconvenience" is caused by conscientious objection."
Francis is not pro-life.
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