has also complicated the care of ectopic pregnancies, miscarriages, emergency contraception and in vitro fertilization. Doctors’ hands are often tied due to fears of incarceration, loss of license and malpractice, resulting in increased morbidity, mortality and infertility among patients.
While Nazi comparisons are sometimes overused, and not to minimize the horrors of the Holocaust, it remains noteworthy that unethical pronouncements regarding bodily integrity and patient care from a central authority is how Nazi medicine became an immoral agent of the state . History has shown us the value of widespread resistance to immoral laws . Physicians have the right, indeed the obligation, to act when confronted with immoral laws that impact our patients’ lives.
I have also shared this idea on one of the major public health listservs and raised it with a number of colleagues at a major national public health meeting. The reluctance I have encountered from other medical workers indicates how much work has yet to be done to organize the medical sector and mobilize our community toward mass action.
I also directly contacted the leadership of major academic and professional medical organizations responsible for education, training and patient care, as well as many of the largest reproductive rights organizations. Not one responded. While I strongly support those who are striving to continue against long odds to provide abortions, as well as those who are working through the legislative process and in the courts to support access to comprehensive reproductive health care, I still believe that direct civil disobedience is the only measure that could immediately put a
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