Policy making delegates back abortion rights resolution
More than 100 policy making delegates at the society’s annual meeting voted for a resolution urging legislation to acknowledge a physician’s right to perform an abortion and to set clinical rules for proper medical circumstances. The proposal also allows physicians to refuse abortion within their training and conscience. The move follows years of intra fraternity debate as courts edge toward pro abortion rulings. The society previously opposed abortion in 1867 and supported anti abortion statutes in 1968 before changes and challenges to the law.