Convincing A Woman To “Think Twice” About Abortion Is Unethical?
It apparently is in Great Britain:
A family doctor faces being struck off [the medical register] for daring to suggest to women seeking an abortion that they should think twice.
Dr Tammie Downes says at least eight grateful mothers have children today which they would have terminated until she asked them to consider the consequences. But Dr Downes, 36, is now being investigated by the General Medical Council for a possible breach of ethical guidelines. If charged and found guilty of professional misconduct, she could be removed from the medical register and forced from her job.
The GMC, which regulates doctors, is understood to have received a complaint from another doctor who claims Dr Downes is promoting her anti-abortion views to patients.
I am ardently pro-life, but at the very least I would think that both sides of the abortion issue could agree that the decision to abort is a weighty one that should not be made lightly. If that’s true, I fail to see how encouraging a woman to take the abortion decision seriously is at all “unethical.”
Of course, Great Britain’s socialized medicine system has a role to play in this as well. There the doctors work for the government, and thus must practice medicine the way the government tells them too. If you step outside their guidelines, meaning you don’t act like some uncaring abortion automaton, you get in trouble.
