Dear Medical Students and ObGyn Residents, The recent action by HHS rescinding the conscience protections put in place by the Bush Administration significantly decreases your ability to fight discrimination in your work setting. So what if you are discriminated against for your conscience convictions in the healthcare-giving arena? Read the experience of one of our […]
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Dear Colleagues, AAPLOG, as a prolife networking service, advertises for like-minded organizations. Here is material regarding a conference in the Detroit area on March 31 to April 2, 2011: In light of the ever increasing pressure on Hippocratic Physicians to abandon our commitments to life, some organizations are beginning to think about what a life-affirming
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ARE YOU FACING DISCRIMINATION? Here is a story of discrimination against a Black American Woman ObGyn Resident, an AAPLOG member, who is currently an Assistant Professor in a large secular University program. Be encouraged. I was a resident in a top 10 OB/GYN residency program. As an intern, I was asked to hold the U/S
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Dear AAPLOG Colleague: Regarding the “original article” found in the Jan 27, 2011 New England Journal of Medicine (pages 332-339) entitled Induced First-Trimester Abortion and Risk of Mental Disorder, by Trine Munk-Olsen, Ph.D., et. al.: This study concludes that the evidence does not support the hypothesis that there is an increased risk of mental disorders
Dear ProLife Colleague; The AAPLOG CME meeting on January 29 was loaded with very important educational information for you as a prolife physician. We will address some of the topics in upcoming letters. Additionally, within the next few weeks, we will have an MP3 file for each speaker available for you to download from our
PTB & Abortion Distortion Read More »
Dear ProLife Colleague, First some encouraging news from Vanderbilt University. Apparently bad publicity, public feedback, and the threat of loss of govt money means a lot. It is not clear how much our conscience rights mean. For those, we will have to keep fighting. Vanderbilt University Abandons Illegal Policy Excerpt from Vanderbilt University abandons illegal
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Dear ProLife Colleague, 4 days ago we detailed some disturbing developments on the “freedom of conscience” issue. We urged you to be, or to become, engaged in protecting your own conscience rights by going to http://www.freedom2care.org/action/message/health-care-professional, and urging your patients to go to : http://www.freedom2care.org/action/message/patient Theses sites contain a simple, common sense petition to sign
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Dear ProLife Colleague, AAPLOG is very careful to not cry WOLF! Unless the Wolf is at the door. The Wolf is now at the door. He can sit there quietly for a year, or he can burst in the door on January 31 and savage your conscience rights. We need to start acting NOW, and
Dear Prolife Colleague, Could you believe your eyes as you scanned the December 2010 ObGyn News. There on page 10 is an article entitled “Induced Abortions Linked to Preterm Delivery.” It is relatively rare to find that kind of information printed in American obgyn literature. Look on the ACOG website. You will strain find an
New Year, New Article, but Old Mindset? Read More »
By Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D. STRASBOURG, December 23 (C-FAM) Europe’s highest human rights court says there is no human right to abortion in Europe’s human rights convention, and that abortion laws are the purview of sovereign states. The European Court of Human Rights made the statement last week in its conclusion of “A, B, and C
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