Posted on 04/24/2008 3:52:15 AM PDT by tcg
The utter horror of an abortion, and its moral magnitude, has increasingly caused Medical Doctors in Italy to refuse to engage in the brutal practice. May their refusal spread among their colleagues throughout the world and help to hasten the end of this barbaric practice.
(Excerpt) Read more at lifesitenews.com ...
Doctors in Italy are able to use a "conscientious objection" clause, which has been strenuously defended by the Catholic Church in the predominantly Catholic country since abortion became legal in 1978, and refuse to commit abortions.
Between 2003 and 2007 the number of gynecologists claiming protection under the conscience clause for abortion rose from 58.7 percent to 69.2 percent, according to the report.
For anesthetists helping in abortions, the figure of those refusing to participate rose from 45.7 percent to 50.4 percent.
"In the south, this increase is even more pronounced and in certain areas the rate has almost doubled," an AFP report explains. In Campania, the region around Naples, the proportion of gynecologists refusing to carry out the procedure reached 83 percent, and in Sicily 84.2 percent.
A similar situation exists in Canada where, though abortion is technically legal up to the moment of birth, such a high percentage of doctors refuse to commit abortions that abortion access is in effect restricted.
According to an article by Ted Byfield published last May by WorldNetDaily, "under Canadian Medical Association rules a doctor need neither perform an abortion nor even direct a patient to an abortion provider. Only 15 percent of Canadian hospitals provide the service, and that percentage is declining."
Byfield's article came in response to a demand made upon the Canadian Medical Association by Vicki Saporta, president and CEO of the Washington D.C. based National Abortion Federation, that all doctors in the country be forced to refer for abortions, whether or not they object morally or on religious grounds.
"Canada, which reputedly provides the most open legal access to abortion in the western world, doesn't provide access enough," said the abortion-rights group.
"Many women can't get abortions at all, or are subjected to long delays." The group's solution: "Require doctors by law to perform abortions whether they like it or not."
However, as LifeSiteNews.com reported earlier this year, even notorious abortionist Henry Morgentaler admitted that doctors should be allowed to opt-out of performing abortions.
When asked in an interview by the National Review of Medicine, "Should doctors be allowed to conscientiously object to performing an abortion?" Morgentaler answered, "Yes. One fundamental reason is that doctors should not be obliged to do things which they don't approve of themselves, and secondly, a more practical reason, a doctor who doesn't believe in it is more likely not to do a good job."
I am sure MOST doctors do not do abortions. Maybe Italian doctors do not specialize.
"The Italian Ministry of Health has reported that nearly 70 percent of Italian gynecologists now refuse to perform abortions
May GOD move that to “100% refuse to do abortions” and spread it over the entire world.
Amen
LLS
Viva Italia!
This is good news! I hope tis a trend that catches on everywhere..
Do you even have to be an MD to perform abortions in the US?
Wow, all of a sudden they became so 'anti-choice'.
I hope this spreads. Like it or not, changing the law will not change people’s hearts-—and if someone wants to abort a child, they can either cause a miscarrige or find a doctor who will. The only way we can really reduce and stop abortion is to convince doctors not to perform them, drug companies not to make those horrible abortion pills and to help pregnant women make a better choice (and this requires us to help them both before and after birth! many of these women are poor, have husbands or boyfriends that ran out on them...etc. They need a helping hand.)
Well as 1) A Catholic, and 2), an American of Sicilian ancestry, this is music to this “pasta eaters” ears. May the Italians return to the day of Love of God, Family, food and wine, as its seems like many Western countries, the first 2 have been under attack from secularist the last 40 years similar to what is going on here in the U.S. and other Western countries. WHo knows, Perhaps the way Pope John Paul II confronted the fralities of his old age was a “homily” that reasonated in the conscious of the Italians who saw him more close hand than the rest of us. Thus, perhaps the constant preaching of the “culture of Life” by Pope John Paul II has started to take root, albeit, ever so slowly.
God Bless and regards
Good for them. Hopefully this will spread around the world and people will stop murdering innocent children.
The fact is, almost no (and no REAL) doctors in the United States are willing to butcher babies, either.
Almost all baby murders in the US are performed by a couple of thousand minions of Satan.
A good question. I know that being an actual doctor was not always a requirement here in Florida... and to be a midwife you definately DO NOT have to be a doctor... I think that you just need to have a doctor on-call. As for other requirements I know that you can go without malpractice ins. and just post a “no insurance” notice.. basically you have to jump through more hoops to run a hot dog cart.
Being an abortionist can't be all that easy. There is that curious innate social stigma against them. For instance, how would you like to shake hands with an abortionist? How many abortionists brag about how they earned all their money? How many want their neighbors to know what their occupation is? It's something that makes most people recoil from them if they know the truth, and yet it's supposed to be respectible.
For anesthetists helping in abortions, the figure of those refusing to participate rose from 45.7 percent to 50.4 percent. "In the south, this increase is even more pronounced and in certain areas the rate has almost doubled," the report adds. In Campania, the region around Naples, the proportion of gynecologists refusing to carry out the procedure reached 83 percent, and in Sicily 84.2 percent. Meanwhile, the number of abortions has dropped slightly. Between 2006 and 2007 it fell from 131,018 to 127,038, a decrease of three percent.
Illegal abortions are also declining, according to the ministry, and stand at around 15,000 a year. "Abortion law is in danger", with the option to have a termination "more and more resembling an obstacle course," Milan gynecologist and pro-choice advocate Silvio Viale told ANSA news agency. Attacks on the right to abortion became a major issue in the recent legislative elections, with polemics from the Catholic Church, and the creation of an anti-abortion party by a close friend of Silvio Berlusconi, journalist Giulio Ferrara -- although he only received 0.37 percent of the vote. A police raid on an abortion clinic in Naples to check it was obeying the 24-week upper limit on terminations aroused great controversy recently.
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