The North Carolina Medical Society Board of Directors has unanimously approved a new policy addressing reproductive health care.
The Access to Comprehensive Reproductive Health Care reenforces the NCMS fundamental belief that medical decisions should be made between a patient and their physician/clinician. This is especially true when it comes to personal and complex decisions around reproductive health.
The policy is a joint effort between the NCMS Policy Committee, NCMS Ethical & Judicial Affairs Committee, and external experts in obstetrics and gynecology, and emergency medicine.
The new policy reflects the NCMS Mission, Vision, and Guiding Principles and underscores the Society’s unwavering support for patients and physicians/clinicians who face some of life’s most difficult decisions.
Thank you for having the courage to approve this policy in a time when reproductive health is under direct attack.
The NCMS needs to realize this policy does not reflect the values of their entire membership. I agree with most, but not all of the points. The ones I have disagreement on are of the woke variety (why “pregnant persons” and not “pregnant women”, for example). At the end of the day, this policy is just a reactive response to the federal government placing reproductive issues back in the purview of the States, where such issues always belonged according to the US Constitution.
I do not agree with your policy on Reproductive Health. Termination of a pregnancy is a medical procedure that has certain indications (ectopic pregnancy, non-viable fetus, etc); however it should not be regarded as an “essential part of comprehensive reproductive medical care.” Your policy indicates no support for the child; therefore I cannot support your policy, and I wish you would do better to look at science and less at politics.
Bravo, NCMS.