Sounds like all mothers will make the choice after the babies are born and must tell the doctor whether or not to make the baby breath or to remove an umbilical cord wrapped around the baby’s neck? “Ma’am, do you want this baby to die? It’s your CHOICE.”
I don’t see how any doctor can square this with the hypocratic oath.
I don’t either, but...I think in today’s world, it is somewhat of a symbolic discussion thing, not a real “oath”.
And that is a pity. I have taken what I regard as two oaths in my life, and I have bound myself to them: My enlistment oath in the US Navy, and my Wedding Vows, which I view as an oath.
Things like this have meaning to me. But I know for some, an oath has no meaning at all. Like Leftists.
Doctors do not have observe the Oath. Article says:
Contrary to popular belief, though, most doctors never take this oath—and, actually, most of us are probably glad they never do.
Original Hippocratic Oath
Although scholars disagree about when it was written, or even who wrote it, the general consensus is that the Hippocratic Oath was penned about 2500 years ago. Most commonly attributed to Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, the ancient vow demands a lot from doctors, including a certain level of chastity, charity and swearing to pagan gods. It provides in pertinent part:
I swear by Apollo the physician, and Asclepius, and Hygieia and Panacea and all the gods and goddesses as my witnesses that, according to my ability and judgment, I will keep this Oath and this covenant . . . to teach them this art . . . without fee or covenant.
I will use those dietary regimens which will benefit my patients . . . and I will do no harm or injustice to them.
I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody who asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect. Similarly I will not give a woman an abortive remedy.
https://gizmodo.com/doctors-aren-t-actually-bound-by-the-hippocratic-oath-1465044222
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What’s the new oath? “I won’t violate the Medicare or Medicaid regulations….” “If a feminist mother or metrosexual father says kill the baby, consider it done....”
“I won’t slow down the career path of the mother or the lifestyle of the father....” or something like that.
Unbelievable.