Most physicians think they know what the truth is in the real world they live and work in,especially with the issues of life and death. They have the strong incentive of the moral code to “First do no harm.” They are also aware that government cannot mandate life but, recently, is mandating a choice for death in abortion and euthanasia.

Some politicians think they know more than God on the same issues. When their thinking conflicts with the logic and evidence of reality they try an euphemism for life and death issues by making death for young and old Americans with abortion and euthanasia sound good as “Women’s health and reproductive issues” and “End of life issues”

We recently had some federal and state legislators give us their present thoughts (and actions) on these issues. With Obamacare’s current suspension of freedom for most of those deemed politically incorrect, we are to listen and pay our taxes for the mandates they have imposed on us. The politicians called it a “community conversation ,” and with the IRS and the NSA watching, doctors and patients better listen up.

America still has the remnant of the greatest health care the world has ever known. It is not a “system” but the result of the good and loving work of many health care givers from all the necessary disciplines to preserve and improve the Culture of Life. It was uniquely created by free individuals guided by two very important influences. Our nation’s first document — the Declaration of Independence that declared before all peoples that we, as individuals, were created with equal rights and “endowed by our creator with the unalienable right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.”

Just as important to the creation of America’s great achievement of the World’s greatest health care was the Judeo-Christian influences as revealed in the works of the old and new testaments “Thou shall not kill.” These words and thoughts were so profoundly important to the miracle that was American health care. At the foundation of every act of care giving was the implied right of every individual to receive the best care available at the time.

The America’s governing role was unique in the world, protecting us as individuals from government tyranny. Before 1973 (Roe vs Wade) America’s role of government was to protect the God-given right to life to all human life male, female, old, young of all races. While we still have the freedom to speak these great truths the Culture of Life should be the topic of conversation. We can and should rejoice in what our freedom to live as our individual,God-given, common sense dictates. We can and should bring our joy in the Culture of Life to the public square.

Donald Chisholm, MD

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