Perinatal Hospice For the pregnant patient who has learned that her baby has a lethal fetal anomaly, we propose a model of care that incorporates the strengths of prenatal diagnosis, perinatal grief management, and hospice care to address the family’s needs. Perinatal Hospice: A gift of time “You matter because you are you, and you […]
These websites contain excellent resources for the woman suffering from post-abortion emotional anguish. Ramah International Wide range of resources offering the hope of healing to aborion’s wounded. This site gives a helpful summary statement of the post abortion stress syndrome, and locates a help center near you. Abortion Recovery InterNational (ARIN) Abortion Recovery InterNational (ARIN)
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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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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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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
Dear AAPLOG Colleague, Here is some info we need to be conversant with. The United Nations’ Millennium Develop Goal #5 (MDG5) is to reduce worldwide maternal mortality by 75% by the year 2015‐‐ a very laudable goal. (About half the deaths occur within 24 hours of delivery.) Cause of deaths: 24% from hemorrhage, 20% from
Dear ProLife Colleague: Our January International meeting made one thing very clear: There is an agenda in the world’s 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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