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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>For those interested, new article on <i>Dobbs/</i>civil disobedience, hoping to spark discussion/commentary<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>A Proposal for Organized Civil Disobedience by Academic Medicine to the Supreme Court’s <i>Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Association</i> Decision</span></u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'> – just out in <u>Social Medicine</u> 2023;16(1):40-42 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Article</span></u><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'> available at <a href="https://www.socialmedicine.info/index.php/socialmedicine/article/view/1477/2627"><span style='color:#0563C1'>https://www.socialmedicine.info/index.php/socialmedicine/article/view/1477/2627</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Also available in Spanish at <a href="https://www.socialmedicine.info/index.php/socialmedicine/article/view/1477"><span style='color:#0563C1'>https://www.socialmedicine.info/index.php/socialmedicine/article/view/1477</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Other very interesting articles in this issue….kudos to Florencia Pena and the editorial staff<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Here is the <u>abstract/thesis</u><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333'>The Supreme Court’s <i><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Dobbs</span></i> decision could lead to half of states outlawing abortion. The medical profession has responded with statements of condemnation, protests, research, and setting up workarounds. Nonetheless, this will not prevent massive increases in morbidity, mortality, poverty (and possibly incarceration) of women, especially those of color and/or low SES.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333'>Health care providers already face legal troubles related to care of patients crossing state borders, telemedicine, and determining when continuing a pregnancy constitutes a risk to a woman’s life. They can be prevented from offering sound medical advice and forced to mention unsupported “risks” of abortion.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333'>The medical profession has the obligation to actively resist immoral laws which adversely impact our patients, and a proud history of such resistance (e.g., the Dutch under the Nazis and the Young Lords’ occupation of Lincoln Hospital). Given widespread support for abortion at academic medical centers, because their leaders promulgate treatment guidelines, and because they train the next generation of physicians to practice science-based, ethical, human-rights-oriented medicine respecting the sanctity of the doctor-patient relationship, AMCs should commit to providing full reproductive health care, including abortion, regardless of state laws. AMCs possess the necessary organizational structures and channels of communication to accomplish this rapidly. Combined with organized protests by groups and private citizens, “demands” to be incarcerated by huge numbers of women who have had abortions (and their partners), support from corporations and sympathetic attorneys, abortion on demand would rapidly become the de facto law of the land, ideally codified by Congressional legislation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Martin<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Martin Donohoe MD FACP<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Public Health and Social Justice Website: <a href="http://www.publichealthandsocialjustice.org"><span style='color:#0563C1'>http://www.publichealthandsocialjustice.org</span></a> or <a href="http://www.phsj.org"><span style='color:#0563C1'>http://www.phsj.org</span></a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Prescription for Justice Television/Podcast:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJt34I9c5vT2RpZtkg6Im2A/videos"><span style='color:#0563C1'>https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJt34I9c5vT2RpZtkg6Im2A/videos</span></a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.kboo.fm/program/prescription-justice"><span style='color:#0563C1'>https://www.kboo.fm/program/prescription-justice</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Public Health and Social Justice Reader (Jossey Bass/Wiley, 2013): <a href="https://phsj.org/public-health-and-social-justice-reader/"><span style='color:#0563C1'>https://phsj.org/public-health-and-social-justice-reader/</span></a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:martindonohoe@phsj.org"><span style='color:#0563C1'>martindonohoe@phsj.org</span></a> <u><o:p></o:p></u></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>