International Issues
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Physician Conscience Rights
Physician conscience rights in medical decision making has become a core issue in medical ethics. AAPLOG is committed to the individual right of conscience for each physician, especially in decisions involving moral values. Right of refusal to do or to refer for abortions is under attack in ACOG’s recent Ethics Committee Opinion No. 385. ABOG
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Residency Program Recommendations
Many prolife medical students write AAPLOG asking for recommendations on residency programs that will not be hostile to their Hippocratic conscience convictions against doing elective abortion. AAPLOG makes no recommendations per se, but we asked our members for comments. The following are their unedited replies, for your information. This list will be updated as new
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Call Legislator
Dear ProLife Colleague: We absolutely must keep up the pressure against the current healthcare bill, which allows for tax-funding of abortions (and no physician conscience protection). Call your congress persons to let your concerns be clearly known. This bill is NOT a done deal, and we need to keep being heard! Here are some talking
MDG5
Dear AAPLOG Colleague, Here is some info we need to be conversant with. The United Nationsâ Millennium Develop Goal #5 (MDG5) is to reduce worldwide maternal mortality by 75% by the year 2015ââ a very laudable goal. (About half the deaths occur within 24 hours of delivery.) Cause of deaths: 24% from hemorrhage, 20% from
Hippocratic Registry
Dear ProLife Colleague: Our January International meeting made one thing very clear: There is an agenda in the worldâs healthcare systema to mainstream abortion as a human right for all women of all countries. Those of us who do not do elective abortion and do not refer for elective abortion will be looked at as
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Mifeprex
This collection of articles, letters, and news releases will define AAPLOG’s positons and actions as the Mifeprex issue has evolved. Analysis of Severe Adverse Events Related to the Use of Mifepristone as an Abortifacient by Harrison and Gary Mifeprex use is increasing, as are the adverse events reported. To see the 2011 FDA Adverse Events