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? asked in Politics & GovernmentLaw & Ethics · 8 years ago

What type of doctor goes into the field of abortion?

Just curious what makes some drs. do this when their Hippocratic oath says 'do no harm'.

Update:

@Tom, I'm quite sure that fetuses are NOT mere bacterium.

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  • 8 years ago
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    The Hippocratic Oath is not generally used any longer, except as an antique curiosity. Have you ever actually read it? It starts out by having the new physician swearing to classical Greek gods! There are quite a few other, modernized versions of the oath.

    You are also claiming that abortion harms the patient. Fetuses aren't bacteria, it's true, but neither are they people, yet. Yes, I know that some people consider fetuses humans. I also know quite a few vegetarians who believe that "meat is murder". The thing is, I don't try to force them to have abortions or eat meat.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Someone extremely compassionate, caring, and understanding. Someone who can afford a lot of security, because pro-life people seem to love killing, although they don't want a 2 cm blob of cells taken out of its host uterus because that's a life.

  • 8 years ago

    that's not Hippocratic. that's not harming. it's sad- but it's the women's choice of what to so with their body. especially when it's not alive yet

  • 8 years ago

    maybe the doctor believes that he is doing what needs to be done under the circumstances.

    and only the doctor and the mother know what that is.

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  • 8 years ago

    By your logic no doctor would prescribe antibiotics

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    they were probably the bottom of the barrel in med school

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