Doctors with targets on their backs
Physicians who stand for morality will increasingly face legal challenges.
Nationwide, "doctors are becoming more assertive in refusing to treat patients for religious reasons," said an Aug. 2 USA Today story. Even in California, where two doctors face a lawsuit from a lesbian refused fertility treatment, some doctors are taking a stand for conscience.
But one doctor, George Delgado, is concerned about the future of medical practice for physicians who have such convictions. Delgado, a Family Practice/OB Gyn physician, is the Medical Director at Culture of Life Family Services, a non-profit medical clinic devoted to offering medical help with a Catholic perspective. It is located in San Diego's Hillcrest neighborhood – a name synonymous with the homosexual lifestyle. Delgado has practiced for 16 years and has never performed an abortion, although he admits that he once prescribed artificial contraceptives. He says a deeper conversion to his own Catholic faith led him to stop prescribing them: "After reading Humanae Vitae, I was resolved to always practice according to the Church's teachings."
Read the rest of the story here: California Catholic Daily
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