“I think it’s pretty awful that a medical professional sworn to do no harm would use this excuse to kill a woman,” counters National Organization for Women activist Jeanne Clark, on the prospect of a patient being denied emergency care with the blessing of the state.

And I think it’s pretty awful that a NOW activist would lie about the bill she’s criticizing. There’s nothing in the bill or its intent or its result about excusing killing a woman since, you know, no women will be killed as a result of the bill.

I do, though, think that any doctor should have to recommend to any patient seeking an abortion a doctor who does perform abortions.

As for artificial insemination, is that something that GPs and family physicians do themselves these days? Isn’t that normally done by one who specializes in AI? Again, if a doctor doesn’t do that sort of thing, the doctor should send the patient to one who specializes in it.

As for the pill and morning after pill, write the prescription, huh? The morning after pill is not like an abortion where the doctor is taking direct steps to personally kill a baby. He’s providing a pill that the woman will take (or not take at her choice) to prevent a fertilized ova from attaching to her uterus wall. Yes, it will prevent the developing blastule from developing into a child but that’s her choice and the direct result of her action in taking the pill.