Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (2021). The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine: Upholding and Promoting the Fundamental Principles of Hippocratic Medicine. The Linacre quarterly, 88(3), 321. https://doi.org/10.1177/00243639211016123
Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine. The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine: Upholding and Promoting the Fundamental Principles of Hippocratic Medicine. The Linacre quarterly. 2021;88(3):321. doi:10.1177/00243639211016123
Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine. "The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine: Upholding and Promoting the Fundamental Principles of Hippocratic Medicine." The Linacre quarterly, vol. 88, no. 3, 2021, pp. 321.
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RRM Academy Synopsis
Physician Alliance Backs Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act
The document is a position statement from a physician coalition. The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine says its member groups represent about 30,000 people. The statement backs the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act (BAASPA) for babies born alive. It asks for standard newborn care and gives no data.
Key Findings
The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (AHM) says its member medical groups represent about 30,000 people.
The statement says any baby born alive should get care under the Neonatal Resuscitation Program, no matter the setting or the birth.
The Alliance says the Act would help avoid inequities in care, including ones tied to race. It gives no data for this claim.
The statement lists the values it upholds: protecting vulnerable patients, seeking the patient's good, and practicing to a high standard.
Interpretation
The document is a one-page position statement, published in Linacre Quarterly, a bioethics journal of the Catholic Medical Association. It has no data, no methods, and no outcomes to check. The statement sets out the Alliance's own view on the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act (BAASPA). The Alliance asks doctors to use standard newborn resuscitation care for any baby born alive. Read its claims, including the claim about inequities, as the Alliance's own argument. The statement offers no evidence for them.
RRM Context
This is a viewpoint from a physician advocacy group. Restorative reproductive medicine does not treat it as research. The library keeps it next to other position papers from professional groups, for reference only.
Our editorial summary of this paper, not the article's abstract.
Ethics and Policy › Reproductive Ethics › Embryo Status
PMID 34565906 34565906 DOI 10.1177/00243639211016123 10.1177/00243639211016123 Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine et al. 2021, Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine 2021