Wed Jun 22, 2022 – 4:26 pm EDT
CHICAGO (LifeSiteNews) – The American Medical Association (AMA) adopted a new policy last week that calls government restrictions on abortion and contraception a “violation of human rights.” The decision follows the leak of the majority Supreme Court (SCOTUS) opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health.
“Responding to a growing threat of over-policing and surveillance of reproductive health services, the nation’s physicians and medical students at the AMA Annual Meeting adopted policy recognizing that it is a violation of human rights when government intrudes into medicine and impedes access to save, evidence-based reproductive health services, including abortion and contraception,” the AMA said in a statement released last Tuesday.
The AMA also stated that it will “continue to challenge criminal or civil penalties on patients who receive reproductive health services, as well as physicians, other health professionals, health systems, and patient advocates for aiding, assisting, supporting, or providing reproductive health services or referrals to patients.”
Incoming AMA president Jack Resnick Jr., speaking about the new policy, said, “A growing number of current and pending laws insert government into the patient-physician relationship by dictating limits or bans on reproductive health services and criminally
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