The Independence of Doctors and the Protection of Life Threatened
For its 209th session that was held from April 26 to 28, 2018, in Riga, Latvia, the World Medical Association (WMA) presented a draft declaration that would do away with conscientious objection in cases of medically-indicated abortions and that would exclude unborn children from the protection required by human rights.
The WMA, founded in 1947 as a reaction to the medical experiments made in Germany under the Nazi regime, would like to introduce two changes into its ethical policy.
The first would limit the independence of the medical staff by forcing all doctors to practice or collaborate in an abortion in certain situations. What a cruel paradox for the WMA that was created to protect the freedom of health practitioners.
The second change would do away with the protection of unborn children: the draft declaration begins by defining a “right to medically-indicated abortion”, and no longer makes any reference to respect for human life from the moment of its conception.
This “right to abortion” that is compared to a “medication”, goes against international law, as Nicolas Bauer recalls on the website of the European Center for Law and Justice:
There is no ‘right to abortion’ in international law, but only a right to life, defined as ‘an inalienable attribute of the human beings [which] forms the supreme value in the hierarchy of human rights’.
The next step will be the general assembly of the WMA from October 2 to 4, 2018, in Reykjavik, Iceland. The decision whether or not to adopt the draft declaration will be made during this assembly.
When doctors are unfaithful to the Hippocratic Oath and their duty to heal and not to kill, civilization declines and barbarianism returns.
Sources: European Center for Law and Justice / FSSPX.News – 6/4/2018
