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BY LifeSiteNews.com by Hilary White  BRISBANE, February 3, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Over 200 Catholic doctors have announced that they will resign from the Australian Medical Association and the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners over RU-486. The doctors are members of the Catholic physician’s society, the Guild of St Luke. The Australian Medical Association represents over 5670 physicians in Queensland.  Dr Terrence Kent, a Brisbane GP, said the group which is meeting on Sunday “will be recommending that members resign from both the AMA and the RACGP due to lack of consultation with members of these two groups on their decisions to support removing authority for approving RU-486 from the Health Minister and giving it to the TGA.”“Not only does RU-486 always result in the death of an innocent human being, complications including maternal death make it totally unacceptable,” Dr Kent said.   The acceptance of RU-486 is being questioned on the basis of maternal deaths and serious complications in the US. A proposed Australian Democrats amendment to the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 would allow RU-486 in Australia. The medical associations are supporting the passage of the act but in November 2005, the Health Minister, Tony Abbott, cited health risks associated with the abortion drug as reasons for its continued restriction.  Dr. Kent said, “The horrific experience that doctors would inflict on young women by giving them this pill to take would be most traumatic to the patients we are supposed to be caring for.”“They would take the pill then wait several days for the process to be completed with concomitant pain, bleeding and passage of a dead embryo. Surely this would be psychologically damaging and a totally undesirable experience.” http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/200-catholic-doctors-resign-australian-medical-association-over-ru-486-supp/

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