there are some of us who do not have the eloquent speech of those who have spoken on this issue, but I think that I have a pretty good advisor in this issue. I am wondering if I am listening to the same America in which I grew up. In rural America, life was simple but life was precious. We were fortunate enough in our family to have a couple of outstanding young folks blessed to our family, one of whom is now a medical doctor in family medicine. A couple of years ago when this issue came up, she was the first one to call me, she being a new graduate of the University of Washington at the Seattle medical school and now doing her residency in Tennessee. She is blessed with a deeply faithful heart and motivated to doing the good things for humanity, taking her oath that she took upon graduation from medical school very, very seriously. If you have not heard that oath, maybe one should read it one time and see what the medical doctors take upon themselves, those who really do dedicate themselves to humanity. She, plain and simply, told her father that there is no reason for this procedure at all, none.
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Discussing the value of life and the medical profession's ethical responsibilities.
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