Relatively few Americans understand the actual nature of abortion law in the United States. Many do know that the Roe v. Wade decision authorized abortion throughout the nation. Still, beyond that, there is mass confusion as to when it is approved, what conditions are legally necessary for the abortion to take place, etc.

Even more specifically, few realize Roe was joined by a companion decision, Doe v. Bolton, and it is this quiet, unexamined companion decision which authorizes a physician the absolute right to end the child’s life whenever the abortionist feel appropriate.

Due to garbled and ideological media coverage, many Americans think that the abortion issue is simply a matter of women’s rights. But so much more was changed by that decision. When the court authorized the ending of that child’s life, for that is what an abortion does, it had to confirm who was to do the killing.

Radical feminist groups had demanded the right to have, and even perform abortions at their discretion and at any time in pregnancy. The same ideological groups asserted that this was a constitutional right because of their right to control their own body.

But Justice Blackmun was clear, he was not giving women that right. She must have the permission and direct involvement of a professional that would kill the child. And that professional baby killer was to come from an existing profession which up until that time had sworn never to kill a child or any vulnerable human being within their care.

The medical professional and that profession alone, was authorized and approved as legal killers of vulnerable children in the United States of America.

And they could do so whenever they - and they alone - felt.

This decision represented a dramatic assault on centuries of civil society and medical ethics. A doctor had sworn that to participate in their profession that they would never kill or intentionally harm a vulnerable patient in their care. The Hippocratic Oath then needed to be dismissed for Roe v. Wade to take affect. This unlimited license to kill at discretion was then explicitly granted to physicians through the Doe v. Bolton decision.

The implications of discarding the Hippocratic Oath are now sweeping through our culture, and killing medicine has become a standard procedure. Doctor killing of the disabled became effective in Canada in March, 2021. Canadian doctors are even authorized to kill the mentally disabled.

In California, this license to kill has now begun to prohibit any dissent or alternative medical treatments. State Senate Bill 380 will require a physician to support and immediately hand their vulnerable patient to a termination doctor, should be attending physician feel killing is an inappropriate treatment for the request at hand. The conscience rights of excellent and effective doctors will now be removed in the name of unfettered medical killing. Additionally, Assembly Bill 705 would prohibit religious, medical institutions, or even hippocratic minded medical hospitals from having policies against terminating patients.

AB705 will push for such institutions to accommodate, approve and facilitate the killing if any physician they are employing so chooses. This new doctor's ‘right to kill’ has become a doctor's and the medical profession’s duty to kill.

Roe v. Wade did much more than authorize human abortions in America. Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton unleashed medical killing on our culture. This terminator role for doctors has happened in the past, and it has never ended well.

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248: When Medical Killing Became Law