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A doctor wearing a protective mask and a protective suit works in a pulmonology unit at the hospital in Vannes, France, where patients suffering from the coronavirus are treated, October 12, 2020.
(Stephane Mahe/Reuters)
With the effective destruction of the Hippocratic Oath, doctors who wish to follow the Oath’s maxims of not participating in abortion or assisted suicide are in danger of being kicked out of the lifeboat by the World Medical Association.
Specifically, the WMA has a draft proposal to amend the organization’s 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):