Letter to the Editor: Saddest Time for Doctors

Dear Editor:

This is probably the saddest time, in the history of the world, to be a physician. I am a Family Physician. My physician peers are killing 1.5 million unborn children every year. I went into Medicine for the classical reasons: To help those who are ill and protect human life. The majority of physicians and their organizations in the US have lost this focus.

Physicians are led by national academies that provide positions statements and practice recommendations. Examples are the American Medical Association (AMA), American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG) and, for me, the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP).

The AAP has been on record as supporting the access of minors to the right to obtain an abortion without parental consent.

The ACOG is vehemently pro-abortion and, recently, has taken up new initiatives to force their residents to learn how to do abortion. ACOG also promotes the dangerous abortion pill, RU-486 as "safe" even though deaths have been reported as well as serious complications. The AMA has gone on record supporting abortion on demand and supporting minor abortions without parental consent.

I have been a member of the AAFP for my entire career. They have been able to stay neutral in the abortion debate until now. In the July 2001 issue of our monthly journal, the Academy placed an advertisement for the abortion pill. In the Ad, an attractive woman poses, with the heading, "At last, an early option for women." I was stunned and insulted. The abortion industry had now invaded my specialty! I wrote and called the Academy extensively and obtained no reasonable explanation for their behavior.

I have ended my membership with the Academy and must now go it alone. It is a very sad time to be a physician.

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