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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDocs should claim moral exemptions from performing unecessary ultrasounds.
Just like pharmacists who won't dispense certain medications.
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Docs should claim moral exemptions from performing unecessary ultrasounds. (Original Post)
elehhhhna
Mar 2012
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cbayer
(146,218 posts)1. You are absolutely correct. I would love to see that happen.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)2. Sounds good, but
If no doctors did the ultrasound, couldn't they just make abortion illegal in their state.
chowder66
(9,088 posts)3. Like the idea but it doesn't solve the problem
It's time to get more women in elected positions across the country and we need to fight like hell to get these stupid laws thrown out.
Little Star
(17,055 posts)4. Now that's a good idea.
Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)5. Well said.
Chorophyll
(5,179 posts)6. Yes, absolutely. nt
felix_numinous
(5,198 posts)7. I wish the AMA would take a stand against this BS.
Where are all the female physicians in all of this? The GYNs that I have known would never go along with this!
burrowowl
(17,653 posts)8. Good idea!
freshwest
(53,661 posts)9. Good idea, but will it work?
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)10. Interesting. I was just reading this...
http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/03/20/guest-post-a-doctor-on-transvaginal-ultrasounds/
Where Is The Physician Outrage?
Right. Here.
Im speaking, of course, about the required-transvaginal-ultrasound thing that seems to be the flavor-of-the-month in politics.
I do not care what your personal politics are. I think we can all agree that my right to swing my fist ends where your face begins.
I do not feel that it is reactionary or even inaccurate to describe an unwanted, non-indicated transvaginal ultrasound as rape. If I insert ANY object into ANY orifice without informed consent, it is rape. And coercion of any kind negates consent, informed or otherwise.
In all of the discussion and all of the outrage and all of the Doonesbury comics, I find it interesting that we physicians are relatively silent.
After all, its our hands that will supposedly be used to insert medical equipment (tools of HEALING, for the sake of all that is good and holy) into the vaginas of coerced women.
Fellow physicians, once again we are being used as tools to screw people over. This time, its the politicians who want to use us to implement their morally reprehensible legislation. They want to use our ultrasound machines to invade womens bodies, and they want our hands to be at the controls. Coerced and invaded women, you have a problem with that? Blame us evil doctors. We are such deliciously silent scapegoats.
Right. Here.
Im speaking, of course, about the required-transvaginal-ultrasound thing that seems to be the flavor-of-the-month in politics.
I do not care what your personal politics are. I think we can all agree that my right to swing my fist ends where your face begins.
I do not feel that it is reactionary or even inaccurate to describe an unwanted, non-indicated transvaginal ultrasound as rape. If I insert ANY object into ANY orifice without informed consent, it is rape. And coercion of any kind negates consent, informed or otherwise.
In all of the discussion and all of the outrage and all of the Doonesbury comics, I find it interesting that we physicians are relatively silent.
After all, its our hands that will supposedly be used to insert medical equipment (tools of HEALING, for the sake of all that is good and holy) into the vaginas of coerced women.
Fellow physicians, once again we are being used as tools to screw people over. This time, its the politicians who want to use us to implement their morally reprehensible legislation. They want to use our ultrasound machines to invade womens bodies, and they want our hands to be at the controls. Coerced and invaded women, you have a problem with that? Blame us evil doctors. We are such deliciously silent scapegoats.