The American medical establishment is going all-in on abortion on demand until birth. A recent column in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine is a perfect example of how activists are capturing the institutions of American medicine and corrupting its soul.
The article was written by Duke-affiliated Beverly Gray, M.D., and Jonas J. Swartz, M.D., who agitate for unrestricted abortion on demand. These two doctors try to strike a righteous pose over having refused to assist North Carolina legislators in drafting medical exceptions to restrictions on abortion after the first trimester, a refusal based on their opposition to any restrictions on abortion, at any point in pregnancy.
They appeal to the extreme pro-abortion positions staked out by groups such as the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. This illuminates how these groups have been commandeered.
Medicine has not been immune from the woke conquest of the professional classes. Organizations are run by those who show up. In medicine as elsewhere, it is the activists and pole-climbers who most eagerly seek positions of organizational influence, which they then use to turn once-respected institutions to partisan ideological ends.
Real Doctors Are Too Busy for the AMA
So groups that purport to speak for America’s doctors are captured by the radical fringe because normal people, including doctors, are not eager to volunteer for extra bureaucratic work in professional associations. As my father, who was a great family doctor, once told me, “I don’t have
