Scott Walker: Doctors Should Lie To Pregnant Women To Prevent Abortions

http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/05/10/3640558/scott-walker-birth-defects-doctors/

Say an obstetrician in Milwaukee was performing a routine ultrasound on a pregnant woman and tragically discovered that the fetus had a serious developmental disability. In Wisconsin, that doctor is legally (not to mention ethically) required to inform the patient. 

However, if then-Rep. Scott Walker (R) had gotten his way, Wisconsin doctors who opposed abortion would have been allowed to withhold that information from the woman if the doctor feared she might get an abortion.

Along with 34 other lawmakers, Walker introduced AB 538 in September 1997. At the time, if a health care provider withheld information about a fetal disability while abortion was still an available option, they could be liable for the child’s future medical expenses. But AB 538 would have changed that.

According to the bill’s text:

This bill creates an immunity from a wrongful birth or wrongful life action for a person who commits an act or fails to commit an act and that act or omission results in the birth of a child because a woman did not undergo an abortion that she would have undergone had the person not committed the act or not failed to commit the act.

In other words, the bill would make it legal for pro-life doctors to withhold information from patients.

Bills allowing doctors to lie to patients in the name of opposing abortion aren’t the only pieces of pro-life legislation Walker sponsored during his nine years in the Wisconsin State Assembly. In 1997, he helped introduce a bill (which passed into law) to ban so-called partial birth abortions. The following year, Walker introduced “conscience clause” legislation that would have allowed medical professionals to deny patients medical services such as contraception if they objected on medical grounds. Though the bill failed, he introduced it again in 1999, and after that failed, once more in 2001, when it failed a third time.

so many words just to say they want to further their advantage in their war on women by allowing those Dr.'s who are of the same discriminate views to deny women the right to own lock stock and barrel their own bodies and the life decisions about that body.  all the negative response to their war on women yet they deny and keep on pushing it.  do you really want them sitting around thinking up ways to impart their will on your grand mom's, mom's, wives, daughters, aunts, cousins, friends????

remember the first rule of the Hippocratic Oath  "first do no harm"  isn't lying to a patient to your own ends in violation of patient Dr. confidence