The Canadian Medical Association’s abortion policy is self-serving and lethal. BY Stephanie Gray Tweet In a contradiction of great proportion, the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) has passed a motion to foster a public debate on end-of-life care, yet they are closed to debating when the very lives some doctors may end first began. The Globe and Mail reported, At the general council meeting of the [CMA] on Wednesday, delegates called on the federal government to reject attempts by a Conservative backbench MP to amend the Criminal Code so that a fetus is defined as a human being. The CMAs own report said that Quebec physician, Dr. Genevieve Desbiens, who brought the motion, said the aim was to prevent a backdoor attempt to reopen the abortion debate. What is she afraid of? Canadians realizing that where you are does not determine what you are? Canadians realizing that since the pre-born are human and abortion slaughters those humans, that any physician involved with killing would be, uh, I guess guilty of killing? That wouldnt reflect so well on the profession that is supposed to shed blood to heal, not shed blood to kill. And people might want to pick another doctor. Oh waitthey would be forced to, for the doctor wouldnt be available to practice medicine from jail. And it seems incarceration is a concern for this Quebec physician: The Globe reported that Dr. Desbiens also warned that doctors who counsel or provide abortion services could become criminals. Wait a minute: If the pre-born are human, and if abortion dismembers, decapitates, and disembowels those humans, whats wrong with classifying those who do the cold-hearted deed as criminals? Dr. Desbiens attitude is self-serving and lethal. Dont consider whether abortion kills the youngest of our kind. No, just make sure you dont put her or her profession-betraying friends in jail. That wouldnt be very nice. Just let them continue to shred the youngest of our kind in peace. Delivering babies involves working at all hours of the night; killing them, however, is a quick way to make cash during regular business hours. If some physicians wish to choose the latter instead of the former, shouldnt they be allowed? Actually, not according to the CMAs Code of Ethics. Clause 9 of their Code clearly states that physicians must refuse to participate in or support practices that violate basic human rights. And the right to life, which abortion violates, is guaranteed in both our Charter as well as the UNs Declaration of Human Rights. Further, the UNs Declaration of the Rights of the Child goes so far as to say the child, by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth. The UN considers that prenatal protection is so important, that in article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, a document it adopted, it says capital punishment shall not be carried out on pregnant women. What makes a pregnant woman different from a non-pregnant one? The existence of another individual. And this is where Dr. Desbiens would do well to read her own code of ethics. In Policy 4 of the Quebec Code of Ethics of Physicians it says, A physician must practice his profession in a manner which respects the life, dignity, and liberty of the individual. Now perhaps Dr. Desbiens would say the pre-born arent individuals. Well if they arent, then what are they? And how is her definitionsiding with the Criminal Codethat they arent human until out of the mothers body, at all scientific? She would do well to also heed Policy 6 of the code which says, A physician must practice his profession in accordance with scientific principles. Science clearly teaches that if something is growing its alive, and if you have human parents you are human offspring. Science teaches that life begins at fertilization. Finally, it is worth noting that while some physicians seem okay with killing children, most are not okay with mutilating them: Consider the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC and Ontario which have policies against female circumcision. Ontario goes so far as to say performance of, or referral for, [female genital cutting/mutilation] procedures by a physician will be regarded by the College as professional misconduct. Lets get this straight: Its professional misconduct to mutilate but okay to decapitate? Stephanie Gray is the co-founder and executive director of the Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform, and author of A Physicians Guide To Discussing Abortion .
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US physician practices spend 4 times Canadian practices
Administrative costs incurred by U.S. physicians and staff are estimated to be at least $82,975 per physician each year. “If U.S. physician practices had administrative costs similar to those in Canada, the total savings for U.S. health spending would be about $27.6 billion per year,” says senior author Dr. Lawrence Casalino, chief of the Division of Outcomes and Effectiveness Research in the Department of Public Health at Weill Cornell Medical College. “Many factors contribute to the high cost of health care in the United States, but there is broad consensus that administrative costs are high and could be reduced,” Dr. Casalino continues. “Short of adopting a single-payer system, reducing these costs can be achieved by realizing efficiencies, such as by adopting standardized rules for transactions between physicians and health plans and communicating through electronic systems.” The authors provide several specific recommendations, including standardizing transactions as much as possible and conducting them electronically rather than by mail, fax and phone. These measures would not only reduce costs but would also reduce the so-called “hassle factor” of physician and staff interruptions for phone calls that interfere with patient care, say the authors. In addition, the authors cite Affordable Care Act changes such as bundled payments, and the creation of accountable care organizations as potentially decreasing administrative burdens over the long term. Additional findings from the study, “U.S. Physician Practices Spend Nearly Four Times as Much Money Interacting With Health Plans and Payers Than Do Their Canadian Counterparts”: On average, U.S. doctors spent 3.4 hours per week interacting with health plans while doctors in Ontario spent about 2.2 hours. Nurses and medical assistants in the U.S.
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