As a recovering healthcare worker, I can say that if you think journalism is full of liberals, try healthcare. That being said, a Harris-Walz administration could bring on a lot of dire practices. Things like abortions on demand and the transgender agenda being forced on children with no parental consent involved. However, the people who would perform such procedures are often overlooked. They might be healthcare professionals, but they are human beings first, with convictions and beliefs like everyone else, and they are not all liberals. Many of them are afraid that the possible results of the looming presidential election may have some serious consequences for their professions.
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The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (AHM) released an open letter to Vice President Kamala Harris. We at AAPLOG echo AHM’s concern regarding the Vice President’s recent statements on conscience rights for physicians. Read More: https://t.co/muFIrkdksj pic.twitter.com/bWPZb3fdKp
— AAPLOG (@aaplog) November 1, 2024
The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (AHM) is a medical professional organization that represents roughly 30,000 physicians, and they are trying to head Kamala Harris’s radical abortion and other healthcare views off should she be elected president. In an open letter to Harris, they state that doctors at various points in their careers, are facing increasing pressure from “several major medical organizations” to perform controversial procedures like abortion, euthanasia, and gender transition that go against their religious or conscience beliefs.
The letter goes on to state:
“In our pluralistic nation filled with professionals of all faiths and values, it is important that leaders protect everyone’s ability to practice in accordance with their conscience. Forcing medical professionals of faith to kill human beings in the womb destroys the very ethic that caused medical professionals to go into the practice of OB-GYN: to care for the lives of both the mother and the human being in her womb. Forcing medical professionals to destroy healthy well-functioning bodies in childhood and creates lifelong dependency on trans hormones is doing great harm, in violation of our oath to first do no harm to our patients.”
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The problem, of course, is Kamala Harris’ radical positions on abortion and transgender issues — the few positions she has not flipped-flopped on. During a recent NBC News interview, she was asked specifically about being in favor of any type of concessions regarding abortion, like religious exemptions. Her answer was ominous, even for those who might consider themselves pro-choice. Harris was not exactly pro-choice when it came to individual religious beliefs. She stated, “I don’t think we should be making concessions when we’re talking about a fundamental freedom to make decisions about your own body.”
The Biden-Harris administration has stated that it does not support transition surgery for minors, but their actions tell a different story. They have gotten behind challenges to individual state bans on the procedures. In June, it was revealed that Assistant Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Rachel Levine was urging a group called the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) to end age restrictions on transitioning procedures and hormone treatments for minors. There is no reason to believe that a Harris-Walz administration would operate any differently.
“…no conscience concessions should be afforded to health-care providers who object to performing abortions.” – VP Harris
In other words, doctors, nurses & other medical providers should not be allowed to refuse to perform abortions because of their faithhttps://t.co/e7DQ2HOYP1— Darren Casper (@darrencasper) November 1, 2024
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Historically, Democrat administrations and individual religious beliefs have not mixed well. The Little Sisters of the Poor, a Catholic order of nuns who run homes for the elderly and poor, took the Obama administration all the way to the Supreme Court to protect their religious rights when the administration tried to force them to comply with a contraceptive mandate under Obamacare that did not include exemptions for religious non-profit entities. The Sisters eventually won.
No healthcare professional should be forced to perform a procedure that goes against their own religious convictions and beliefs. So, it is Kamala Harris’s statements during the NBC interview that have the physicians that AHM represents concerned, and why they want some reassurance from Harris that any future administration of hers would protect these rights. The letter went on to say:
“As physicians who have devoted our lives to our patients and our profession, we urge you to affirm your support for the conscience rights of medical professionals and commit to protecting these rights by preserving and enforcing existing legal protections.”
The letter ends this way:
“We would be honored to aid you in this endeavor as physicians who are personally affected by attacks on our conscience rights, and we look forward to hearing from you.”
No word on whether there has been a response from Harris or her campaign. That might be the first clue that things might not go well for healthcare professionals in a Harris administration.
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I’m a Catholic physician. More to it, I’m an ETHICAL physician.
Kamala hates religious exemptions for conscientious physicians who REFUSE TO KILL.Catholic and ethical OB GYN’s practice excellent maternal care without performing abortions. The vast majority of Gyn’s don’t… https://t.co/NiQAK7jVcK
— Grazie Pozo Christie, M.D. (@GChristiemd) October 23, 2024
