Thanks again to Dr Peter Saunders of Christian Medical Comment for highlighting the fact that The Royal College
of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has
decreed that post-graduate qualifications in sexual and reproductive health
will not be available to Doctors and Nurses who refuse to prescribe contraceptives
that destroy embryonic life. This is discriminatory toward and oppressive of
those professionals who hold firm pro-life views. Will it be long before GP’s have
the same kind of pressure levelled at them; that the Royal College of General Practitioners
will make it necessary to prescribe all forms of contraception and refer for
abortion ‘services’? After all, both Colleges are allied to the British Medical
Association.
There is only one aspect in Dr Saunders
article to which I would offer a different slant. Dr Saunders rightly indicates
that contraceptives work either by preventing fertilisation of the egg or by preventing
a fertilised egg from implanting (in some cases, they seek to prevent
ovulation), but the fact is that even those which seek to prevent fertilisation
have secondary effects on the uterine wall which theoretically make it
impossible for a fertilised egg to implant. In this, contraceptives theoretically
become abortifacient drugs.
I believe the core problem is ideological,
but it is significant that in 1983 British Medical Association changed the
words ‘from the time of conception’ to ‘from its beginning’. This puts Doctors
and Nurses in direct contravention to the Geneva Convention which states, “I
will maintain the utmost respect for human life from the time of conception” and
allows them to take the beginning of life to be implantation or even the point
of birth, where individuality from the mother can no longer be denied.
The biological nonsense of this is
plain to see: it is from conception that an individual human life begins
because from that moment a new life with its unique DNA comes into existence. Its
implantation, its birth, its reaching of puberty and powers of reproduction are
all but stages in the life of that new human being.
The question is this: why are some
health care professionals refusing to live by scientific realities? The answer to
that question is this: persuaded by ideologies (or their personal desire for
sex without responsibility?) they are unwilling to go against the grain and
declare all embryonic life a human being, because that would put them into
conflict with those who wish to continue the killing of the unborn child. This
is an example of the secular mind seeking out the darkness because the light
requires them to live in a new way; it is a light by which they must learn to
control their desires and build self-mastery over their instincts, rather than
allow their instincts free reign. We have a society today which has put itself in
bondage to instinct and forgone the use of reason.
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