Dear ProLife Colleague: Our NEW website is up! Basically same material as before, in a modern format. www.aaplog.org Please inform us of errors you see, or needed tweeks. We’ll keep improving the material! Remember ACOG Ethics Committee Opinion #385 (2007)? The one that says we must all refer for abortions, and even suggests we locate our office near an abortion provider for patient convenience (yes, it does say that!) AAPLOG requested that ACOG revisit and revise that document. ACOG Ethics Committee did revisit it, and DID NOT revise a word of it. That was 2008. Fast fwd to 2010: We have a State Dept with world wide access to legal abortion as part of its foreign policy. We have a Congress passing a Major law that allows tax-payer funding of abortion. We have a President who is behind these initiatives, pushing. Next step?? Why not legislate that we refer for abortion or go to jail? Don’t laugh. It could be happening just south of us (see below), and it could happen here. (By the way, we strongly urge you to go to our website, click on “Hippocratic registry,” and sign on as a Hippocratic physician-which you are if you are prolife.) http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/04/29/proposed-law-mexico-send-doctors-dont-suggest-abortion-jail/ Proposed Law in Mexico Would Send Doctors Who Don’t Suggest Abortion to Jail By Jana Winter Doctors who fail to inform their pregnant patients that they have the legal right to have an abortion — or who refuse to refer women to doctors who perform abortions — could be thrown into the slammer for up to four years, if the dominant political party in Mexico City’s legislature has its way. Doctors who fail to inform their pregnant patients that they have the legal right to have an abortion — or who refuse to refer women to doctors who perform abortions — could be thrown into jail for up to four years, if the dominant political party in Mexico City’s legislature has its way. A bill has been co-introduced by the city’s Health Committee chairwoman and a leading legislator that would mandate that all pregnant women in Mexico City be informed that they have the right to have an abortion in their first three months. The bill, which is being debated in the legislature and is expected to pass, has the support of more than a dozen members of Mexico City’s ruling Democratic Revolution party — the same party that passed the 2007 law that legalized abortion in Mexico’s capital city. If passed into law, doctors who do not discuss abortion with their pregnant patients will be subject to penalties that include one to four years in prison, heavy fines and the loss of their medical licenses. Ask yourself: what would I do if I were practicing in Mexico City when this law passes? Maintaining our conscience rights as doctors is the ultimate battleground, and the battle has already begun (see Ethics Committee Opinion #385 if you don’t believe this.) AAPLOG
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