I am a longtime AAFP member. The science of embryology is clear: the unborn are distinctly human from the moment of fertilization. An ethical argument against abortion can be derived from reason and science no matter what religious or non-religious background.
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Joe Michael Mazzolini
7 years ago
Due to the Academy's stance on abortion, I felt it necessary to end my long standing membership in the AAFP.
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Richard Asher MD
7 years ago
Please protect life and don’t put forward the taking of life. A Native tribe does not get stronger by killing their Young.
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Cynthia Comly Van Andel MD
7 years ago
I am no longer a AAFP member because the organization does not represent my views regarding many social issues.
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Lindsay Rerko DO
7 years ago
AAFP member
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Kenneth Dudley
7 years ago
For the AFP to take a position on this devicive issue will only cause Physians like myself, who oppose abortion to leave the AAFP.
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Jeffrey A Lipke
7 years ago
MD, FAAFP
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Anonymous
7 years ago
Please listen the the many AAFP like myself who strongly disagree with elective abortion. We as physicians have pledged "to do no harm". Elective abortion is without question harm and thus should not become a political issue for the AAFP.
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John Arce
7 years ago
AAFP member
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Anonymous
7 years ago
I am a third year medical student planning on entering family practice someday in the near future. I strongly support this petition and believe the issues at hand to be of vital importance to the future of our culture of medicine, which should be a culture of life and helping others, not ending the lives of our most defenseless. To be a family physician is to care for the mother AND child at hand; both are our patients, and both deserve our utmost care and respect.
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Irine Bey Pi
7 years ago
Supporting prolife, let's stop discriminating among fetuses
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Sarah Jones MD
7 years ago
AAFP member (FAAFP)
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Jeffrey J Sutton MD
7 years ago
AAFP member
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Ethan Zimmerman MD
7 years ago
AAFP member
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MD student
7 years ago
AAFP member
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Ken Hillner
7 years ago
Abortion truly is the most extreme form of child abuse, is a horrible blight on our national conscience, and has
no place in the AAFP.
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Brooke Gensler M3
7 years ago
I am a 3rd year medical student, AAFP member and Vice President of the Family Medicine Interest Group at Creighton University School of Medicine.
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Christine King
7 years ago
Thank you for being Pro-Life!
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Linda W Flower MD FAAFP
7 years ago
It just does not make any sense that the AAFP would want to decrease their patient population by performing, referring for or advocating for abortion. There is absolutely no scientific evidence that abortion improves the health and well being of our patients. Now that we have such good maternal and neonatal care, there are no good medical reasons for abortion before or after viability. If the academy persists in the position against freedom of conscience, many of us will be leaving the membership. I delivered babies for 20 years and have been a member since medical school - of over 40 years.
I am a longtime AAFP member. The science of embryology is clear: the unborn are distinctly human from the moment of fertilization. An ethical argument against abortion can be derived from reason and science no matter what religious or non-religious background.
Due to the Academy's stance on abortion, I felt it necessary to end my long standing membership in the AAFP.
Please protect life and don’t put forward the taking of life. A Native tribe does not get stronger by killing their Young.
I am no longer a AAFP member because the organization does not represent my views regarding many social issues.
AAFP member
For the AFP to take a position on this devicive issue will only cause Physians like myself, who oppose abortion to leave the AAFP.
MD, FAAFP
Please listen the the many AAFP like myself who strongly disagree with elective abortion. We as physicians have pledged "to do no harm". Elective abortion is without question harm and thus should not become a political issue for the AAFP.
AAFP member
I am a third year medical student planning on entering family practice someday in the near future. I strongly support this petition and believe the issues at hand to be of vital importance to the future of our culture of medicine, which should be a culture of life and helping others, not ending the lives of our most defenseless. To be a family physician is to care for the mother AND child at hand; both are our patients, and both deserve our utmost care and respect.
Supporting prolife, let's stop discriminating among fetuses
AAFP member (FAAFP)
AAFP member
AAFP member
AAFP member
Abortion truly is the most extreme form of child abuse, is a horrible blight on our national conscience, and has no place in the AAFP.
I am a 3rd year medical student, AAFP member and Vice President of the Family Medicine Interest Group at Creighton University School of Medicine.
Thank you for being Pro-Life!
It just does not make any sense that the AAFP would want to decrease their patient population by performing, referring for or advocating for abortion. There is absolutely no scientific evidence that abortion improves the health and well being of our patients. Now that we have such good maternal and neonatal care, there are no good medical reasons for abortion before or after viability. If the academy persists in the position against freedom of conscience, many of us will be leaving the membership. I delivered babies for 20 years and have been a member since medical school - of over 40 years.
AAFP member