July 27, 2006

This Doctor Should be Fired

This one right here, should be fired for incompetence:

"This is an issue I've struggled with for years," Gish said. "My current feeling is life begins at conception, and I feel that anything that interferes with that" causes an abortion.

Why incompetence? Because clearly he doesn't understand the reproductive cycle, or the difference between ejaculation, fertilization and conception.

Sperm can live in the body for several days before even meeting the egg, and are not even capable of fertilizing an egg for several hours after ejaculation. Once the sperm reaches the egg (which has about 24 hours of viability), then it takes repeated assaults by multiple sperm to fertilize the egg, which occurs over the 24 hours of the egg's viability.

Short version? Even if the doctor "feels" that life begins at conception? That rape victim at the hospital hasn't had time to conceive. The EC will prevent her from ovulating, thus preventing conception.

And let's just imagine that the doctor is not simply incompetent through ignorance of his job. In that case he's deluded or a bald-faced liar, which makes him and his employer actively negligent.

Negligence. Now that's a word that hospital administrators like to hear. Combine it with callous indifference, and I'll bet that would get their attention.

Via BitchPhD. And yes, I thought the article did a poor job of identifying which doctor was whom.

Posted by binky at July 27, 2006 09:42 AM | TrackBack | Posted to Extremism | Religion | Sperm Worship


Comments

OK, I'm just throwing this out there - a general question that's not exactly relevant to the post - but something slightly related that I'm curious about.

When it comes to sex education - is most of that that most Americans get taught what they get in middle and/or high school? If so, are boys and girls still taught that separately in those classes? And if so is there any work comparing the quality/nature of the education that boys get to that that girls get?

Posted by: Armand at July 27, 2006 10:14 AM | PERMALINK

I don't have any direct evidence (ie know any children of the age to have recently received such information), so I'll speak from a policy perspective. If you look at what gets funding these days, I don't think any of them is getting much in the way of solid sex ed, whether male or female. All the money is going for the abstinence fetishization.

Posted by: binky at July 27, 2006 10:19 AM | PERMALINK
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