That pro-lifers are anti-science is oddly, a charge often thrown. But when a bunch of doctors fail to acknowledge what medical textbooks already say, confuse American jurisprudence with Canadian and give power to a motion that not even an official bill would have, there’s not a peep from the media. Cue the chirping crickets.
Brian Lilley and I discuss the recent Canadian Medical Association decision on M-312, here.
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I wonder how many of these doctors that voted for this resolution actually perform abortions. That human life begins at birth implies that abortion is acceptable up to birth. I think we really need to have the conversation of just what is acceptable to ask somebody else to do for you. And I find that people are all to quick to defend a woman’s right to choose abortion, but rarely think about the other side of that so-called right: that a doctor has to perform a feticide.
Which leads me back to the CMA convention. It’s one thing if all the doctors there are regular performers of feticide and abortion. But if they are like the vast majority of doctors who will not perform abortions, but will refer for them, well, they are simply passing the buck. Those second and third trimester abortions are pretty gruesome, and if the CMA was really looking out after their own, they would be doing whatever they could to dissuade women from seeking out abortion past about 12 weeks.