Posted on 05/20/2023 6:33:06 PM PDT by marshmallow
'Our clients seek to live out their faith in their medical practice, and that includes valuing every human life entrusted to their care.'
(LifeSiteNews) — California has backed down on enforcing a law requiring medical practitioners to participate in physician-assisted suicides against their will and has agreed to pay $300,000 to the Christian medical professionals who took the state to court.
California legalized assisted suicide in 2015 with the End of Life Option Act, under which physicians were able to opt out of participation in, and could not be punished for, “refusing to inform” a patient about his “right” to assisted suicide or for refusing make a referral to a more willing physician.
However, in October 2021, Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law SB 380, which states that “participating” in assisted suicide remains “voluntary” but requires refusing physicians to refer patients to someone else and defines “participation” so narrowly as to effectively compel participation in the practice, according to Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), which filed a lawsuit against the law on behalf of the 16,000-member Christian Medical & Dental Associations (CMDA) and Dr. Leslee Cochrane.
Last September, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California granted a preliminary injunction against enforcing the law, and on Wednesday, ADF announced that it has reached a settlement in which the state agrees to not enforce “any criminal or civil punishment, including professional discipline or licensing sanction for a California-licensed physician’s refusal or failure to” aid a patient in ending his or her life and to pay CMDA $300,000 for its attorneys’ fees and other expenses.
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One pro-life victory at a time. Keep praying and making spiritual sacrifices, and keep taking the godless state to court.
Yes, keep up the good work and keep fighting the good fight!
praise God!
they back down for now but likely will try another angle very soon
Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.
Sadly, only a matter of time before they mandate MD’s and kick the Hippocratic-oath to the past
RE: and kick the Hippocratic-oath to the past.
1) Do doctors still have to take an oath?
While nearly all U.S. medical school graduations include a public promise, and some use an updated version of Hippocrates’ words, not a single student utters the original Hippocratic Oath. Instead, today’s medical students recite a vast — and growing — range of oaths.
2) The Hippocratic Oath: The oath is not legally binding.
3) Some say that the oath is irrelevant in modern medical practice because it does not address ethical issues that are relevant today.
4) When did doctors stop taking the Hippocratic Oath?
In 1973, the US Supreme Court rejected the oath as a guide to medical ethics and practice by stating that the oath is incapable of covering the latest developments and methods of medical practice and research.
Again, sorry I have to report this.
Wow I didn’t know it was gone in 1973. When I worked as an RN/PT for the state of California we recited the Hippocratic oath and took and oath the the US in the sheriff’s office part of the hospital, took our pictures, handed in pertinent information ( back ground checks checked) and off we wen a healing...NOT a killin.
The Democrat “healthcare” goal — Every doctor an executioner.
California Assisted Suicide
Walk any street after 10:00 at night or be on freeway after 2:00 am.
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