by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
Dr. Mehmet Oz, a former television pitchman for dubious "medical" treatments who was recorded earlier this year saying that any abortion at any stage of pregnancy was "still murder" (per Yahoo News), has been bobbing and weaving on the issue since then as he tries to balance his rhetoric on the issue in a way that will appeal to moderates - or at least not offend them. But last night in a televised debate with his opponent for an open Pennsylvania US senate seat, Oz stepped into the issue big time when he said that states should decide the issue of abortion with input from, among others, local politicians. The television personality said this:
"I want women, doctors, local political leaders, letting democracy that's always allowed our nation to thrive, putting the best ideas forward so states can decide for themselves."
Actually, Mehmet, the states wouldn't be deciding for themselves, they would be deciding for women. Using input derived from local politicians who are not the people actually affected by the legislation takes influence away from those who are directly affected: women and their physicians. Local politicians, or any politicians at all, for that matter, have no place in medical discussions and decisions between patients and their trained and licensed medical providers.
Just as trained and licensed medical providers have no business advertising or selling quack cures to a gullible public.
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