{"id":18364,"date":"2021-08-12T17:14:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T00:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=18364"},"modified":"2021-08-12T17:14:15","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T00:14:15","slug":"quick-takes-unethical-medicine-woke-activism-world-medical-association-vs-medical-conscience-a-rare-reversal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/08\/12\/quick-takes-unethical-medicine-woke-activism-world-medical-association-vs-medical-conscience-a-rare-reversal\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Takes \u2013 Unethical Medicine: Woke Activism; World Medical Association vs. Medical Conscience; A Rare Reversal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: Just following orders&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little mood music:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r7cWi41XGCM\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Carrying on\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SkullRx.gif\" alt=\"Death, Rx\" width=\"287\" height=\"269\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Of course you\u2019ll have near unanimity in medicine when you\u2019d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/medical-journal-train-medical-students-to-be-woke-social-activists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">kept out<\/a> doubleplusungood people with their wrongthing&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThere the New England Journal of Medicine goes pushing woke agendas again. This time, the extremely politically progressive medical journal has published an article urging that medical students be taught that left-wing social-justice engagement should be among their professional duties. From \u2018Physicians as Activists\u2019:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018This question [the social justice role of the physician] is even more pressing today, given the vast inequality in the distribution of wealth, racial and socioeconomic inequities in health and health care, catastrophic global dangers, and astounding failures of leadership. Such challenges have stimulated additional discussion about whether physicians should \u201cstay in their lane\u201d \u2014 as the National Rifle Association directed them to do in 2018 \u2014 or should instead help fill the leadership void and fulfill their roles as advocates for the sick and the poor, as Bernard Lown passionately believed. . . .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018We believe that social issues ought to be part of medical school curricula, not only because doctors need to know that the social determinants of health account for 80% of health outcomes, but also because students should understand that only by addressing social issues can they truly improve the health of the population. Whether physicians push for change as advocates, activists, or legislators, we contend that social involvement should be part of the job description. . . .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018Current Surgeon General Vivek Murthy wrote in 2019 about the need for physicians to be guardians of integrity: \u201cPeople will accuse us of being political, but if people accuse you of being political because you\u2019re standing up for people who can\u2019t stand up for themselves, then you should do it anyway, because that is at the heart of our profession.\u201d The misinformation and mismanagement surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic have reinforced the need for physicians to speak up regarding moral issues. The alternative approach \u2014 indifference \u2014 reflects the narrow view that being political is not what doctors do.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Gotta <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/the-world-medical-associations-plan-to-gut-medical-conscience\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">git rid<\/a> of that pesky Hippocratic Oath\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWith the effective destruction of the Hippocratic Oath, doctors who wish to follow the Oath\u2019s maxims of not participating in abortion or assisted suicide are in danger of being kicked out of the lifeboat by the World Medical Association.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSpecifically, the WMA has a draft proposal to amend the organization\u2019s ethical rules to require that physicians with a conscientious objection to an intervention refer patients to other physicians without the moral reticence. Specifically, the draft ethical revision reads (with the proposed change in bold):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018Physicians have an ethical obligation to minimise disruption to patient care. Conscientious objection must only be considered if the individual patient is not discriminated against or disadvantaged, the patient\u2019s health is not endangered, and undelayed continuity of care is ensured through effective and timely referral to another qualified physician.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIf adopted, it would mean that physicians would have the ethical duty to be complicit in actions to which they are opposed for religious or moral reasons, including abortion, euthanasia (where legal) \u2014 i.e., homicide, assisted suicide (where legal), blocking puberty of children diagnosed with gender dysphoria, transition surgeries , infant circumcision, etc. This would not only violate the human rights of physicians by forcing them to do things they believe immoral or harmful to the patient, but require them in abortion\/euthanasia\/assisted-suicide cases to be complicit in the taking of innocent human life.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;On rare occasions, the gutting of ethics from medicine hits a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/court-victory-for-medical-conscience-because-of-rfra\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">road bump<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cHHS passed a rule under Obamacare that punished refusal to perform abortions and transgender-transition interventions with fines and other penalties for \u2018discrimination.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe Trump administration reversed that coercive approach, but Biden\u2019s HHS is again on the hunt for Christian and Hippocratic Oath-believing doctors, seeking to obliterate \u2018medical conscience.\u2019 Now, a federal judge has granted a permanent injunction under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) protecting Christian doctor plaintiffs from having that rule enforced. From Franciscan Alliance v Becerra (citations omitted):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c \u2018Here, the RFRA violation, the success on the merits, is all but conceded. No party disputes that the current Section 1557 regulatory scheme threatens to burden Christian Plaintiffs\u2019 religious exercise in the same way as the 2016 scheme: namely, by placing substantial pressure on Christian Plaintiffs, in the form of fines and civil liability, to perform and provide insurance coverage for gender-transition procedures and abortions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018Like before, the current scheme continues to fall short of the \u201cmore focused\u201d RFRA inquiry. The government asserts no \u201charm [in] granting specific exemptions\u201d to Christian Plaintiffs. Accordingly, for these reasons and those laid out in greater detail in the Court\u2019s October 15, 2019, Order, the Court holds that Christian Plaintiffs have shown success on the merits for its RFRA claim because the current Section 1557 regulatory scheme substantially burdens Christian Plaintiffs\u2019 religious exercise in clear violation of RFRA.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe Court ruled that the consequential infringement on religious beliefs constituted sufficient \u2018irreparable harm\u2019 for the injunction to issue:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018For irreparable injury, the mere \u2018possibility\u2019 of injury is not enough. Plaintiffs must demonstrate that irreparable injury is likely in the absence of an injunction.\u2019 In the context of RRFA, if a plaintiff demonstrates a violation, that \u2018loss of First Amendment freedoms, for even minimal periods of time, unquestionably constitutes irreparable injury.\u2019 Here, Christian Plaintiffs contend that violation of their statutory rights under RFRA is an irreparable harm. The Court agrees and concludes that enforcement of the 2021 Interpretation forces Christian Plaintiffs to face civil penalties or to perform gender-transition procedures and abortions contrary to their religious beliefs\u2014a quintessential irreparable injury\u2026Because the Court finds the permanent-injunction factors weigh in favor of granting an injunction in this instant, the Court concludes that Christian Plaintiffs are \u2018entitled to an exemption\u2019 from HHS\u2019s religion-burdening conduct.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;TTFN.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Unethical Medicine: Woke Activism; World Medical Association vs. Medical Conscience; A Rare Reversal\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The focus this time: Just following orders...\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SkullRx.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: Just following orders&#8230; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little mood music: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Carrying on\u2026 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/08\/12\/quick-takes-unethical-medicine-woke-activism-world-medical-association-vs-medical-conscience-a-rare-reversal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17],"tags":[65,46,24,35,48],"class_list":["post-18364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthcare","category-progressives","tag-doom","tag-kyriarchy","tag-leviathan","tag-rip","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18365,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18364\/revisions\/18365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}