Coalition Of Medical Professional Orgs Urge Harris To Protect Physicians’ Conscience Rights

A coalition of medical professional organizations are urging Vice President Kamala Harris to protect physicians’ right to practice medicine based on their conscience beliefs.

The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (AHM), which represents over 30,000 physicians, argues in a letter that doctors, no matter the stage in their careers, face ongoing pressure from “several major medical organizations” to participate in performing abortions, euthanasia or gender mutilation procedures. Harris has outwardly expressed pro-abortion views and flip-flopped her stance on supporting sex change surgeries.

“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,” the letter reads. “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.”

For doctors who care and are competent, “trampling” on the right to act according to one’s conscience hurts livelihoods, careers and patients, AHM argues. When a doctor is forced to act against his or her conscience, it not only affects the professional, but the patient as well.

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