Supreme Court outlaws Hippocratic oath

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The U.S. Supreme Court's May 24 decision has made medical ethics illegal. The El Supremo Court has ruled that any family-planning clinic that accepts tederal funds cannot reveal that abortion does exist, even though it is vitally necessary to save the life of the pregnant woman.

Even if a woman is 12 years old, diabetic, AIDs positive, with a serious heart disease, or a hard drug By user-and even if the fetus is so deformed it is unlikely to survive outside the womb, she cannot be told about the option of abortion. Clinics that receive any federal funds have had their lips sealed when it applies to poor women.

This decision makes an executive ruling by President Reagan in 1988 the law of the land. This is not something that was passed by Congress, although those gutless wonders in Congress could have gotten rid of this neanderthal ruling when it was first initiated by Ronnie Reagan.

Now the Democrats on Capital Hill are strutting around saying that they are going to pass a bill to abolish the regulations which were first adopted in 1988 by the Dept. of Health and Human Services.

Actually, federal funds have not been used for abortion since 1970. What makes the Supreme Court ruling even more evil is that it says that any clinic which receives any federal funding cannot even mention the word abortion.

For 20 years, the Democrats in Washington have had the opportunity to pass a bill which would have restored federal funds for abortions for poor women. They have not done this, even though the Democrats have been the majority in Congress for all of those years. This proves the futility of trying to rely on so-called friends of a woPiedmont Avenue advertise the products.

One survey in Baltimore determined that 70 percent of the city's billboards were located in poor, inner city neighborhoods. Of those billboards, 76 percent advertised liquor and cigarettes. Researchers in Detroit, Saint Louis, and other ciman's right to choose.

Why is it in the interests of the capitalist rulers to make forced pregnancy the law-as it was in Rumania under Ceaucescu, or as the Pope is trying to impose on Poland? Could it be that Bush is really pro-life and wants to save little children? It is estimated that 400,000 children in Iraq will die this year if that country does not receive aid to save them. Has Bush made even the slightest effort to save these children?

Most important to the capitalist class is to continue receiving massive tax-breaks at the expense of the poor and working class. That means cutting healthcare for all workers and poor people, cutting social services down to the bone, cuts threatening the very existence of public education, cuts in the pitiful allotments for nutrition provided children in the poorest families, and so on. Why?

All of these anti-human measures are designed to decrease taxes for the wealthy rulers of this country. At the same time, taxes are raised on the middle class and working class to pay for more savings-and-loan, bank, and airline bailouts.

It is necessary to provide phony "moral issues" like the "right to life" and "freedom of speech" for racist and sexist assaults on Blacks, women, gays and others branded by capitalist society.

It is all designed to provide a "moral" cover for the fascist defenders of capitalism who will be set loose by panicked capitalists when the working people and their allies inevitably begin to fight back. That's what the anti-choice zealots are—the social breeding ground for incipient fascism.

Our class must organize, massively, independently, and in the streets to regain our rights—if we are not to be pushed down even further. We have to mobilize as we have before, independently of the two political parties in power, to fight for our human rights. THAT'S TRUE! I DON'T KHOW ABOUT YOU, NANDA, BUT MONVIOLA LIBERTIES AND CAS. MITTE SMOKING ARE NOW INEXTRICAGLY LINKED IN MY MIND!