AZ Senate Passes Bill Allowing Doctors To Not Inform Women Of Prenatal Issues To Prevent Abortions

[liberalhistorian]

63. The AZ AMA should make clear to its members

that any one of them who withhold such information will be investigated for revocation of their medical license, regardless of any state "law." While the legislature can pass all of these such laws it wants, it DOES NOT and CANNOT any control whatsoever over the profession's own code of ethics and conduct and the AMA rules. Those are entirely separate from any legislative ordinances and control. And the deliberate withholding of medical information, particularly when it involves a potential or direct threat to lives such as an ectopic pregnancy, is a gross violation of the most basic code of professional conduct that doctors are sworn to uphold.

Therefore, any doctor who tries to hide behind the protection of any legislative rule such as this may be shielded from state criminal prosecution and civil suits by any affected patients, but he or she WILL NOT be shielded from professional discipline itself. The AMA needs to make this absolutely crystal clear to state physicians. And if a patient dies as a direct result of their deliberate withholding of information, then their license must be immediately revoced, with no possibility of reinstatement.