Two Catholic doctors won't prescribe oral contraceptives

[gam197]

news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Headlines/frtHEAD04022108.htm

This is a nice article on these Florida doctors.

Two area Catholic doctors have decided to stop prescribing medicine that prevents pregnancy, citing medical evidence they say supports their religious views – but stands in conflict with established gynecological doctrine.

In an October letter to patients, Drs. Benjamin and Rebecca Peck cite research that has shown using hormones to prevent pregnancy – such as taking the pill – is linked to cervical cancer, heart risks and breast cancer. These are risks, the Pecks say, that have been brushed aside by a society eager to endorse sexual activity while artificially minimizing the probability of creating new life

“It’s something we feel very passionately about,” said Dr. Benjamin Peck, 45, who has a private practice in Ormond Beach with his wife.

 

[goofyjim]

And they shouldn’t have to. Yet any doctor that wants to prescribe should feel free to do so as well.

 

[So_Catholic]

Hold on…hear that noise anyone?

:heaven: :harp: :harp: :heaven:

Woohoo party in heaven, GO Catholic docs

 

[sheila0405]

If only we had more Catholic doctors with the courage of their convictions! I wonder how many young women realize that the Pill can stop a new life from implanting in the womb? If that isn’t a chemically induced abortion, what is? The purpose of the Plan B drugs is to do exactly that. It is disingenuous to deny women the truth about what the Pill can do to women’s bodies. And pu-leeze–taking powerful estrogen hormones for acne? When did we get so cuckoo that we will introduce a drug into a young girl’s body which can result in her having a stroke in order to clear up her skin???

 

[stbruno]

I hope more doctors realize this as well. God bless our prolife doctors. They need our continued support as well.

 

[Gloria1]

great! thanks for sharing!

 

[CatholicCajun]

There is a Deacon in our diocese that does not sell them in his pharmacy as well.

 

[mmm1]

Wow, good for them! I wish they would move to the Northeast! Did you notice the comments to the story, though? The level of hate & anger directed at them is shocking. Sometimes the anti-religious tone some people have scares me. They definitely had supporters & good comments, though, God bless them!

 

[Goth_Catholic]

Wow, good for them! I wish they would move to the Northeast! Did you notice the comments to the story, though? The level of hate & anger directed at them is shocking. Sometimes the anti-religious tone some people have scares me. They definitely had supporters & good comments, though, God bless them!

Yeah some of those comments are so ridiclous. It’s wrong to pratice beliefs that disagree with mainstream society.

Good for the doctors, I want to be just like them

 

[rwoehmke]

Wow, good for them! I wish they would move to the Northeast! Did you notice the comments to the story, though? The level of hate & anger directed at them is shocking. Sometimes the anti-religious tone some people have scares me. They definitely had supporters & good comments, though, God bless them!

We have a doctor in our parish who is associated with three local community hospitals who advertises his support of NFP in at least one local paper. He does not prescribe chemical or other ABC. I have never heard any derogatory comments about him.

 

[pianoplayingmom]

There are two doctors–a husband and wife–here in the Twin Cities who do not prescribe ABC either. The last I heard they were not taking any new patients because they were so busy.

 

[Kaninchen]

Hmm

I suppose the problem arises because they’ve changed their policy (as opposed to starting a new practice with a particular policy from the start) - though it’s only really a minor inconvenience where it’s possible for patients to change easily to other doctors.

I suppose that, if they were my doctors, I’d admire them for having the courage of their convictions while urgently filling in the necessary paperwork to escape to another practice!

 

[sheila0405]

I suppose that, if they were my doctors, I’d admire them for having the courage of their convictions while urgently filling in the necessary paperwork to escape to another practice!

That’s how it ought to be. Freedom of conscience means that the consumer may choose a provider who will care for them. There are some who are attempting to make it a crime to refuse to offer contraception.