SPL followers share why pro-life doctors are so crucial

Hi All –

This weekend I’ll be training pro-life doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals at the annual conference for the American Association of Pro-Life OBGYNs (AAPLOG). I’ll be teaching attendees how to have persuasive and useful conversations with pro-choice colleagues, friends, and family.

As I prep my training, I’m struck by how absolutely crucial pro-life medical voices are. The white lab coat and impressive initials (MD, RN, PA, etc.) carry major cultural sway. Those who have provided medical care to moms and their unborn babies can stand on the authority of their experience. And we need them to, for so many reasons:

1. They protect children by giving the best possible care to them and their mothers.
2. They support parents by offering them more options and sticking with them through tough circumstances.
3. They pierce echo chambers, where so many are well intended but haven’t heard an opposing view from one of their own.
4. They recruit allies, serving as a beacon so others who want to provide life-affirming care can find professional guidance, and personal support.
5. They train the rest of us so that pro-life activists, attorneys, legislators, and others can fight abortion while defending medically necessary care. We do not have to choose between them.

Through SPL’s medical professionals survey (which you should take if it applies to you), I’ve learned that some of our pro-life clinicians want to speak up more boldly but don’t know how. I can for sure help with that, and the AAPLOG conference it will be a great start.

But in the meantime, I want to make sure pro-life doctors and nurses know that their voice matters a lot. Here are some comments from SPL followers explaining why they specifically want pro-life doctors.

There are so many patients out there who have been protected by pro-lifers in medicine, or harmed when they couldn’t find any.

Patients can’t find pro-life clinicians unless they speak up. Help me train them to do it. On February 28, I’ll be presenting Building Bridges, a training on persuasive dialogue. We expect the travel and print materials for this trip to amount to less than $600. Help us equip pro-life medical professionals to take a stand. Donate here:

Glad to have you in our corner,

Monica

If you’re a pro-life doctor and want to make sure patients can find you, contact AAPLOG about getting added to either their pro-life directory, or their non-public list of contact info they can share with patients who reach out to them.