"The only course left to us is to refuse to participate … The AMA's own code of ethics states: 'regardless of society's attitudes, ensure that you do not countenance, condone or participate in the practice of torture or other forms of cruel, inhuman, or degrading procedures, whatever the offence of which the victim of such procedures is suspected, accused or convicted'.
According to the Tokyo Declaration, a physician should not "countenance, condone or participate in the practice of torture or other forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading procedures, whatever the offence of which the victim of such procedures is suspected, accused or guilty, and whatever the victim's beliefs or motives, and in all situations, including armed conflict and civil strife".
The Australian Medical Association's code of ethics requires doctors to refrain from countenancing, condoning or participating in the practice of torture or other forms of cruel, inhuman, or degrading procedures regardless of society's attitudes, and not to enter into contracts which conflict with personal integrity, clinical independence and the primary obligation to the patient.
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When the Supreme Court voted 5 to 4 to uphold the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act this spring, the ambivalently pro-choice public was largely quiescent, believing, as Congress had previously ruled, that the procedure was "gruesome and inhuman," medically unnecessary, highly controversial in the medical community and so rare as to be little missed.
A report by Mr. Helgerson's office completed in the spring of 2004 warned that some C.I.A.-approved interrogation procedures appeared to constitute cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, as defined by the international Convention Against Torture.
The transformative procedures make the models look almost inhuman, and yet the portraits suggest a new frontier of beauty, perhaps one that has not even fully evolved yet.
Despite the soothing rhetoric about "death with dignity," the procedure will bring about a society that is inhuman.
The WHO is still against: "The practice also violates a person's rights to health, security and physical integrity, the right to be free from torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, and the right to life when the procedure results in death".
The practice also violates a person's rights to health, security and physical integrity, the right to be free from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, and the right to life when the procedure results in death.
It violates a person's rights to health, security and physical integrity, the right to be free from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, and the right to life when the procedure results in death.
