APA, Five Other Physicians Groups Condemn Texas Law Restricting Access to Abortion

Yesterday APA joined five other leading physician groups in opposing a Texas state law that took effect Wednesday banning abortions, medical counseling, and support related to abortion after six weeks of pregnancy.“Our organizations, which represent nearly 600,000 physicians and medical students, strongly oppose any laws and regulations that interfere in the confidential relationship between a patient and their physician. This new law will endanger patients and clinicians, putting physicians who provide nec essary medical care, or even offer evidence-based information, at risk, by allowing private citizens to interfere in women’s reproductive health decision making,” wrote APA, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Obstetricians and G ynecologists, the American College of Physicians, and the American Osteopathic Association in astatement. “Moreover, this law virtually eliminates women’s access to evidence-based, comprehensive care and information, and denies women their right to make decisions about their own health.”The organizations stated that they are firmly against any policies that limit the evidence-based practice of medicine; threaten the patient-physician relationship; and inhibit the delivery of safe, timely, and necessary comprehensive care, including reproductive health services and information.“To that end, we fundamentally oppose the unprecedented ability for private citizens to take ...
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