From Symposium (1)

One of the speakers pointed out that less than half of the doctors are actually in the American Medical Association. He suggested that this was due to its liberal stance on issues, thus setting the AMA in opposition to the position of many healers.

This speaker also suggested that having a living will or a "medical directive" is not as safe as having a "durable power of attorney" because you can't lay out directives ahead of time for all contingencies. Better to have someone making those decisions in the circumstances that actually occur in our lives.

Another speaker pointed out that "pregnancy" is defined differently. Some doctors will say that a particular birth-control measure prevents pregnancy and is not abortifacient because they define pregnancy as the time when the baby is implanted in the womb and not when the baby is conceived. Thus they can claim that a birth-control method does not interrupt pregnancy, although some of us can clearly see that it does. So it's important to find out what your doctor's definition of "pregnancy" is. (Gee! Who would've thought that would be a matter of dispute??)