prolifeadvocate:

The Hippocratic Oath includes this phrase:

“I will not give a lethal drug to anyone if I am asked, nor will I advise such a plan; and similarly I will not give a woman a pessary to cause an abortion.”

It also says “I will not cut for stone, even for patients in whom the disease is manifest; I will leave this operation to be performed by practitioners, specialists in this art.”

So, according to the original Hippocratic Oath, doctors can’t perform surgery, so obviously surgery’s not healthcare either.

Seriously, do fundamentalists ever actually read the actual documents they quote?

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   Further, doctors were theoreticians who were NOT often actively engaged in any kind of manual work. Surgeons, and the...

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    Not to mention the inconsistencies within various translations and manifestations of the oath. Research: how does it...

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    Cue my medical historian ass dying of laughter over here. When will people learn that historical documents =/= moral...

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    WRONG! Hippocrates WAS NOT against abortion, ONLY...specific type of one

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    The funny thing about this is that it is an extrapolation of the ‘ancient text as law’ mentality of fundamentalist...

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22. stfuantichoicers reblogged this from sluthaditcoming and added:

    Oh, and how about the fact that the Hippocratic Oath was written at a time when it was common belief that women were...

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24. harpermd reblogged this from sluthaditcoming and added:

    Well, they often cite the Bible, soooo

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    cut for stone, even for patients in whom the disease is manifest;...leave this...

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