Committee Opinion 1: Hippocratic Objection to Killing Human Beings in Medical Practice

Committee Opinion 1 discusses the Hippocratic Oath, the conscientious objection of physicians and other health care providers to participation in elective induced abortion, and the intentional conflation by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) of elective induced abortion, which is not medical care, and emergency parturition to save the life of the mother, which is.