Why Doctors Are Abandoning Medicare (Physicians will not be bullied into bankruptcy)

Fox News ^ | 01/17/2010 | C.L. Gray

[mathluv]

I mentioned this only to show that changes are ALREADY taking place, even without the healthcare being passed.

[Catholic Iowan]

I’ll go you one further. Not only should we not have accepted abortionists, we should have never accepted abortion. When the Roe v. Wade decision came down, every pro-life person, regardless of creed, should have flooded the streets in protest. And we should have never continued voting in politicians who continued to pass legislation that only strengthened access to abortion.

We can’t blame pro-life physicians for “allowing” abortionists to be accepted in the medical profession (which most, if not all, don’t accept as “doctors”).

It also would have helped in the religious leaders in this country would have been more courageous in opposing the Roe v. Wade from the very beginning. As a Roman Catholic, I certainly don’t exempt the bishops in the U.S. I think they could have done much, much more to shut down abortion. A real threat of excommunication to any Catholic judges and politicians voting to advance abortion, backed up by carrying out the threat may well have slowed the number of abortions to a crawl. It probably would have not stopped it completely, because we have always had abortion. But, instead of the 50 million (Yes, RJR, your figure is about 20 million too low) the numbers would be relatively miniscule. Still horrific, but not so much as what has happened.

[Catholic Iowan]

Mom MD,

Thank you for your dedication to the medical profession, in spite of the ingratitude you increasingly face. I work in the billing department at a hospital and do the billing for Medicaid patients. I certainly understand this lack of gratitude that you speak of.

I really don’t wish to challenge your assertion of being pro-life, and not knowing what type of medicine you practice, it may or may not be an issue with you, but in the medical field, as well as society in general, there seems to be a giant blind spot among otherwise pro-life people. I’ll probably get flamed for this, but I must ask, do you prescribe birth control pills, IUDs, Depo-Provara, Norplant, etc., which either can, or do act as abortifacients?

From his book, “The Facts of Life: An Authoritative Guide to Life and Family Issues,” researcher Dr. Brian Clowes has said:

“Millions of women in the United States and all over the world use oral contraceptives. Many women who would never even consider a surgical abortion now use low-dose birth prevention pills that cause them to abort a new life an average of once or twice every year. A large number of women who say that they are pro-life use these pills, many at the urging of their husbands. These are usually the women who are ignorant of the pill’s abortifacient mode of action, those who think that their way of life requires that they use the pill, or those who cannot mentally make the connection between contraception and abortion.”

“Some researchers (using very conservative figures) have calculated that the birth prevention pill directly causes between 1.53 and 4.15 million chemical abortions per year in the United States - up to two and a half times the total number of surgical abortions committed every year!”

“This means that “pro-life” women who are using an oral contraceptive, or some other means of abortifacient birth control, are committing abortions themselves on a frequent basis. These abortions are “silent” and unseen, but they are no less abortions in the eyes of God than are gruesome third-trimester D&X abortions. There are many “pro-lifers” who are using these pills and who are involved in their promotion and distribution. These people must consider whether they can, in good conscience, criticize women whose action differs from their own only in that they have to drive to a “clinic” (mill) to commit it (pp. 74-75).”

If you do not prescribe abortifacient forms of contraception, I especially commend you. If you do, I ask that you please give this some thought as to whether as a pro-life physician, that you should continue to do so. God bless.

[Piers-the-Ploughman]

i agree that conservatives and catholics have done poorly responding to these major culture shifts.

When prayer was outlawed in public schools, I would have liked to have seen the Christian leaders of this nation do an end around and privatize public schools. Essentially eliminate all but a token presence. Give taxpayers a tax credit—if they donated $1000 to a Catholic, Protestant, or Jewish primary or secondary school, then take $1000 off their prop tax bill. WE CAN work around the idiots, in fact we can work circles around them.