Except science is no longer science. It's whomever has the most money who defines science from religion. Here's an example.
In 1981 Donald Rumsfeld was still CEO of Searle, who owned the patent for NutraSweet (aspartame). Rumsfeld was one of Reagan's advisors while still CEO of Searle, now Monsanto. He convinced Reagan to dismiss the current FDA Commissioner and instead appoint Hayes. Hayes then got a panel of 5 scientists all sympathetic to the cause Aspartame being safe. He was wrong and it was a 3-2 decision opposing Aspartame. So Hayes appointed another panel member, it was then tied, and the FDA commissioner has the authority to vote in cases of ties. After the FDA approved Aspartame as generally regarded to as safe, Hayes quit and became the senior medical advisor for Burson-Marsteller, the PR relations firm for both Monsanto and Searle. In 1985 when Monsanto bought out Searle, Rumsfeld got a $12 million bonus!
As for abortion, the original hippocratic oath states that abortion is harming the life growing inside the mother's body and a doctor has a duty not to kill his patient gestating in the womb.
Why does your religion trump what a private doctor does? I say you can compromise and if a doctor refuses, he is required to give contact the medical board and they assign you a doctor who will do such action which you refuse.
Since we don't pray to Apollo anymore, we can forget the original Hippocratic Oath.
The new one is as follows;
I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:
I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.
I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.
I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.
I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.
I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.
I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.
I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.
I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.
If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.
Or the Osteopathic Oath is used;
I do hereby affirm my loyalty to the profession I am about to enter. I will be mindful always of my great responsibility to preserve the health and the life of my patients, to retain their confidence and respect both as a physician and a friend who will guard their secrets with scrupulous honor and fidelity, to perform faithfully my professional duties, to employ only those recognized methods of treatment consistent with good judgment and with my skill and ability, keeping in mind always nature's laws and the body's inherent capacity for recovery.
I will be ever vigilant in aiding in the general welfare of the community, sustaining its laws and institutions, not engaging in those practices which will in any way bring shame or discredit upon myself or my profession. I will give no drugs for deadly purposes to any person, though it be asked of me.
I will endeavor to work in accord with my colleagues in a spirit of progressive cooperation and never by word or by act cast imputations upon them or their rightful practices.
I will look with respect and esteem upon all those who have taught me my art. To my college I will be loyal and strive always for its best interests and for the interests of the students who will come after me. I will be ever alert to further the application of basic biologic truths to the healing arts and to develop the principles of osteopathy which were first enunciated
I don't have a religion. Religions require faith and dogma, I follow no such things. Posting a single example and attempting to discredit all of science based on that single example is a stupid route to take. "Science isn't science anymore"... lol You're a joke.
A woman has the right to do with her body as she pleases, to a point. Before the child can survive outside the woman, it's not a viable life.
It's hilarious that you care more about the baby that isn't even alive yet, than the mother who is a living, breathing, entity.
