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PoindexterOglethorpe

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3. In what way are you thinking First Amendment?
Mon Mar 11, 2019, 11:34 PM
Mar 2019

That has to do with the federal level as in "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech . . . ."

That doesn't apply at the state level, and these laws are state laws.

I just don't understand why the AMA doesn't stand up every single time one of these laws is passed and say that the Hippocratic Oath does not permit them to lie to patients, pure and simple. Which would hopefully lead to a court challenge. And if it were to go all the way to the Supreme Court, and they uphold those dreadful laws, doctors across the country should simply refuse to treat any patients other than those in the most dire circumstance. Which would also violate the Hippocratic Oath, but it might bring home to these idiots how stupid it is to have doctors lie to patients.

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