I’m a big fan of WORLD magazine.
I started reading it as a young teenager and have enjoyed and profited from it ever since.
My dad (who blogs at mdviews) recently got an article published in WORLD, and I couldn’t be more excited about it! My dad is an OB/GYN doctor and has been in the thick of the abortion issue for decades. (Don’t worry, he’s not 90, only 56). His (and my mom’s) stand for life has been very influential for me.
He served on the board of Birthright, a Crisis Pregnancy Center, for many years. And he’s never been ashamed of his pro-life views. Quite the opposite. He counsels women toward life.
His article in WORLD is about the ever-increasing legal pressure being put on doctors to perform or refer for abortion and to provide euthanasia. This is not new. Although the pressure is mounting.
What is new to all of us non-doctors out here (and to be sure many doctors as well), is the formation of a band of physicians who agree to the Hippocratic Oath. You may not know this, but doctors no longer take the Hippocratic Oath and they haven’t for quite some time.
This new Registry of Hippocratic Doctors allows for doctors to differentiate themselves from the doctors of death (that is, unfortunately, many of them) and commit to protecting life in every circumstance.
Wouldn’t it be nice, as a patient, to know if your doctor embraced life as a virtue? Wouldn’t you want to know beforehand that they were committed in everything to do no harm? My dad outlines some of the key parts of the Hippocratic Oath that you’ll be very interested in.
Go read it. It’s definitely worth it.