The
Medical College of Antioquia
was pronounced after the ruling of the Constitutional Court that decriminalized the voluntary interruption of pregnancy until the 24th week. According to
Carlos Valdivieso, president of the association
conscientious objection is valid so that health professionals do not carry out the procedure since doctors did not study to be executioners.
“We doctors
we have not studied medicine to serve as executioners
. You have to see the doctor’s point of view. Doctors do not study to perform this type of procedure and absolute respect for conscientious objection is required,” Valdivieso said.
The doctor Carlos Valdivieso described
what would the procedure consist of
so that gynecologists comply with the ruling of the Constitutional Court that decriminalized abortion up to six months of gestation.
“If there is a minor pregnancy, of low level of weeks,
the gynecologist will have to wield a curette
and perform a procedure where the product of the pregnancy is extracted, which is a living being that is going to end its life at that moment. In the case of a child between 20 or a little more weeks, they will have to give him a medication that allows him to have a heart attack in that fetus and then get rid of the mother, which is the term that is used, extract that fetus that before He was alive and as a result of the doctor’s action, he will lose his life and will be extracted,” Valdivieso said.
According to the president of the Medical Association of Antioquia, conscientious objection becomes the only alternative available to
healthcare professionals
not to carry out the procedures.
“The only way out for doctors is to object individually and that is a very important issue that must be taken into account. We doctors know that life exists from the moment of conception, no one can stop to deny it. For us and many doctors, the discussion is not about whether the interruption is done early or if it is something that a doctor can do without compromising the basic principles of medicine,” Validivieso said.
Listen to the president of the Medical College of Antioquia, Dr. Carlos Valdivieso, in an interview with Mañanas BLU: