E. Informed Medical Consent: a Doctor's legal duty to Protect Health

     Although your author is  NOT  a  lawyer, it is well  known that in
 Canada and the United States a medical doctor has a legal duty to pro-
 tect a patient's health.  This  means  that even if a patient requests
 or demands a treatment that the doctor knows (or ought to know) is not
 in the patient's best interests, the doctor is legally required NOT to
 provide the treatment.  Since  elective  induced abortions have raised
 risks of  breast  cancer,  suicide, and substance abuse, virtually all 
 U.S. and Canadian induced abortions are ILLEGAL, since these risks mean
 that the procedure is not in the patient's best interests.  Thus, even
 before considering the APB risk,  this elective procedure is illegal!!
 The APB risk simply compounds the illegality.  In the very  short term
 of twelve months, is not an elective induced  abortion  much safer for
 the  mom than a term birth?  No, this myth was shattered in 1997  by a
 study published in the top Scandinavian journal in the field of obstet-
 rics and gynecology.34.  It reported  that Finnish women who had abor-
 tions had 3.5 (three and one half)  times  the  risk of dying from ALL
 CAUSES of death compared to women who carried to term, in  the  twelve
 months 'after the end of pregnancy'.  No one has  refuted  this study.
 Please  note that so-called  'maternal mortality'  is  NOT the same as
 'all-cause' mortality, since 'maternal mortality' excludes the follow-
 ing causes of death:

   1. accidents (including car/truck accidents)
   2. suicide
   3. homicide
   4. cancer

 In the 1997 Finnish study, women who  had  induced  abortions had 6.46
 times the risk of  dying  via  suicide  and four (4) times the risk of
 dying in accidents compared to women who carried to term.34  Accidents
 are number one killer of young people between the ages of 15 and 24 in
 the United States.  Previous U.S. studies  that  compared mortality of
 women who induced aborted and women who carried to term, used 'maternal
 mortality', NOT the  all  inclusive 'all-cause mortality'!  These U.S.
 studies  simply  presumed, with  no proof, that how a pregnancy ended, 
 had virtually no effect on the risk of dying  via  accidents, suicide,
 homicide, cancer, etc.  Good medical science should not  rely on  mere
 presumptions.  The 1997 study of Finnish women  shatters  the presump-
 tions of some U.S. researchers.34

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