The AMA Should Prefer Hippocratic Oath to Hypocrisy

Illinois governor said all pharmacists MUST provide abortifacient drugs if prescribed, with no room for a person who feels that their religion does not allow them to do so. This article makes an excellent point about the recent AMA decision to legislation that would require all pharmacists fill prescriptions for any legal drugs, including those that cause abortions.

There has to be room for those pharmacists that believe that it is wrong to kill the child in the uterus, even if it is legal. Legal does not always mean ethical nor moral!

Some doctors now refuse to take the Hippocratic oath for various reasons. This is an option, apparently, that they allow themselves. One could say that this is a matter of conscience.

If they can have ethical or moral grounds to decide about this, then they must respect those in other health professions that have similar reasons for not being able to participate, and do not have any desire to be in any way instrumental with taking a human life, pre-born or elderly, or any time in between. No pharmacist should be forced to provide or to refer any prescription he or she feels is morally wrong to provide.

No nurse, no doctor, no person should EVER be forced to give up their profession or go against their conscience!