The legalization and "medicalization" of abortion initiated a radical change in our conception of doctors and medicine.

The doctor who takes advantage of the legalization of abortion might have the impression of serving his patient by performing an abortion for her. It is nevertheless suitable to wonder about the doctor's attitude:

• Is this doctor still unconditionally at the service of life in its beginnings? Is he not putting his art at the service of those who are stronger? Isn't he sacrificing the existence of the weakest to the interests of the strongest?
• Doesn't the doctor risk exercising his art for the preferences of the state or dominant groups? Doesn't he become a mercenary who is concerned not to protecting life and health, but rather in serving a patron other than the sick?
• We know that today there are doctors who sterilize, abort (which ncessitates inflicting terrible torture on the fetus to put it to death), and practice active euthanasia, sometimes presented as "assisted suicide." We are witnessing an essentially qualitative change in the doctor-patient relationship.
• Furthermore, studies recently published show that some doctors plan to associate themselves with power, to participate in it, and even to ensure "management of life by the state." Who will bear the expense of this medical technocracy? The so-called developed nations? The third world? The poor?

Whence the necessity for certain doctors to make known without ambiguity their position regarding respect for life and their position vis-à-vis political power. Hence also the need for doctors who are unconditional servants of life to organize on an international level. To make oneself known is indispensable for being credible.
 

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MOTIVES FOR POPULATION CONTROL: http://www.simbahayan.org/B5-popmotives.html
DR JUAN FLAVIER IN CAIRO 1994: http://www.simbahayan.org/B5-flavierincairo94.html
AGAINST THE POPULATION BILL: http://www.simbahayan.org/sin961022-popbill.html
LEGISLATIVE PROCESS: http://www.simbahayan.org/B5-legisprocess.html
PRO-CHOICE LOBBY GROUP: http://www.infoteam.com/nonprofit/plcpd/
1999 POPULATION BILL: http://www.simbahayan.org/HB8110.html
1999 ABORTION BILL: http://www.simbahayan.org/aborbill.html
VARIOUS SLIDES: http://www.simbahayan.org/defenslides.html
U.S. INTERVENTION: http://www.usaid-ph.gov/phn/directory.html
U.N. INTERVENTION: http://www.unfpa.org/front/links.htm
DOCTORS & NURSES: http://www.ohiolife.org/qa/qa24.htm
ANTI-FERTILITY VACCINES - 1: http://www.idrc.ca/books/738/talwar.html
ANTI-FERTILITY VACCINES - 2: http://www.inx.de/~usp/antifert.htm
ANTI-FERTILITY VACCINES - 3: http://www.ewtn.com/library/ISSUES/STEALTH.TXT
HARVARD REPRODUCTIVE TECH WATCH: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/Organizations/healthnet/SAsia/techwatch.html

LETTER OF REFUSAL TO DISPENSE ABORTIFACIENTS
http://www.pfli.org/refusltr.html
NEED FOR A "CONSCIENCE CLAUSE"
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THE FLAME LEGISLATIVE SCOREBOARD
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