Unfortunately, the medical community realized two things: 1) killing unborn children is REALLY profitable and 2) they needed to revise the Hippocratic Oath to still be considered ‘doctors’.
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To be clear, an abortionist is NOT A DOCTOR, no matter how many times the Hippocratic Oath is rewritten.
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Abortions performed when the fetus has sentience (ie. late-term) are rarely performed, and when they are, it is the case that carrying the fetus to term would kill the mother. It would actually be more harmful to not perform an abortion then as the fetus and the mother would die anyway.
I was under the impression that when an abortion (well, the more standard unwanted pregnancy ones (that aren't illegal)) was performed, the foetus was pretty much a ball of cells with not much in the way of organs or anything.
Does this make nature evil for causing miscarriages?
A doctor is someone who is licensed to practice medicine.
Abortions have been going on for centuries before doctors started conducting them, and if doctors stopped performing them, midwives, nurses, pharmacists, vets, barbers and all of those who used to perform them wii start again.
And you are a moron.
1) killing unborn children is REALLY profitable
Not where I come from! Abortions are done in the UHC system, financed by taxes and no panties have been bunched as a result.
Where are these previous versions of the Hippocratic Oath? I'd like to read them. (In English, of course, because if it's good enough for Jesus, right?)
OTOH, at one time Protestants didn't give a rat's ass about a Catholic issue like abortion, until they realized its potential for slut shaming.
@Meeeh: I bet you come from one of those communist fascist Muslim atheist Satanist countries, i.e. not the U. S. of A.
killing unborn children is REALLY profitable
No it's not. It's a huge loss for doctors and hospitals, compared to letting the baby run to term:
Average cost of an abortion: $500
Average cost of simple childbirth: $10,000*
Average cost of a complicated caesarian: $24,000*
*hospital only, excl. pre- and post-natal care, which can add an average of another $2,000-$4,000.
...no matter how many times the Hippocratic Oath is rewritten.
Considering the Hippocratic Oath starts 'I swear by Apollo, the healer, Asclepius, Hygieia, and Panacea, and I take to witness all the gods, all the goddesses...' I'm surprised any Christian would take it.
Their medical degrees say otherwise.
Also I very much doubt you know anything of the Hippocratic Oath, medical science, the stages of cognitive development for a fetus... anything that requires you to actually know something rather than just pontificate on it.
It's only profitable if it's NOT within the regular hospital care or if there is no universal healthcare system. And, they are not children until they ARE born.
There are a lot of things that contradict the Hipocratic Oath. Do you think that cosmetic surgeons are also NOT DOCTORS? Touching up a nose and stretching loose skin on the neck are also against the Hippocratic Oath.
Nope. As much as the pro-liars whine about "abortion mills" being a cash cow, blastocysts are not made of gold and doctors do not get rich from performing abortions. And, okay, why would a Christian care about the Hippocratic Oath being rewritten when it initially mentions Greek/Roman gods. It also states not to perform surgery for kidney and gallstones.
And, no, doctor is a real title. The anti-abortion crowd likes to use abortionist as a pejorative term, but those who perform them are still medical personnel.
How profitable is it to perform an abortion? I'm guessing the procedure isn't much more than a few hundred dollars at most and would be an outpatient procedure. Much cheaper than performing childbirth and keeping the mother and baby in the hospital for a couple days. If the medical community were really concerned with making as much money as possible, they'd be trying to ban abortion in favor of childbirth.
....You're a doctor if you have 2 things:
That's it. A number of doctors take the oath, but not doing so has no impact on your ability to practice.
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