Nice job, bishops

[Loren Pechtel]

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...en-miscarriage-abortion-mercy-health-partners

What I don't understand is why these doctors still have licenses.

 

[Jayjay]

 

[whichphilosophy]

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...en-miscarriage-abortion-mercy-health-partners

What I don't understand is why these doctors still have licenses.

The article didn't say whether the babies concerned had reached foetal viability which is a sort of compromise between pro and anti abortionists. Also the legal and medical interpretation of how the health of the mother was affected would have to be evaluated by medical advice in conjunction to legal professionals. Above all, were the mothers informed of the options available and given impartial advice whereupon the doctors then acted upon her consent.

In England there is a precedent called the Bolem test.

I have quoted WIKI here

"It is just a question of expression," said McNair J.

"I myself would prefer to put it this way, that he is not guilty of negligence if he has acted in accordance with a practice accepted as proper by a responsible body of medical men skilled in that particular art. I do not think there is much difference in sense. It is just a different way of expressing the same thought. Putting it the other way round, a man is not negligent, if he is acting in accordance with such a practice, merely because there is a body of opinion who would take a contrary view. At the same time, that does not mean that a medical man can obstinately and pig-headedly carry on with some old technique if it has been proved to be contrary to what is really substantially the whole of informed medical opinion. Otherwise you might get men today saying: "I do not believe in anaesthetics. I do not believe in antiseptics. I am going to continue to do my surgery in the way it was done in the eighteenth century." That clearly would be wrong."[1]


I am not sure if things have changed since that time. One can interpret it to some degree, in that whether the patient lived or died it was okay as long as this was done by informed individuals following the correct procedures. On the other hand medical practice is very complex and patients die when it could have been prevented, even in the most capable hands. Perhaps such an application in the USA may prevent some of the multi billion law suits we sometimes see in the USA.

However, let's say one of the women had dies from this procedure. In the UK ,unless there were special circumstances or she would have died anyway with or without the procedure she would have died anyway