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Will Doctors Be Forced to Violate the Hippocratic Oath?

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Will Doctors Be Forced to Violate the Hippocratic Oath?
A "euthanasia kit" available in the 250 Belgian Multipharma's chemist shops for general practitioners who want to practice euthanasia at patients' homes, in Brussels, Belgium, on April 18, 2005. Etienne Ansotte/AFP via Getty Images
Wesley J. Smith
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For 2,500 years, doctors have taken the Hippocratic Oath, promising to “do no harm” generally and pledging—in its original rendering—not to perform abortion or assisted suicide, specifically.

Wesley J. Smith
Wesley J. Smith
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Award-winning author Wesley J. Smith is host of the Humanize Podcast (Humanize.today), chairman of the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism and a consultant to the Patients Rights Council. His latest book is “Culture of Death: The Age of ‘Do Harm’ Medicine.”
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