Since then, he has had to limit his work to assisting at births and treating women in their third trimesters because of his opposition to performing pre-natal tests often used by women to decide whether or not to obtain an abortion. "The better the pre-natal diagnosis, the more abortions are performed", he explained.
"As a doctor, my mission is to protect life", he said. His request to be relieved of performing such tests was denied by hospital administrators.
"I have no other option than for a judge to rule on the conflict for the defence of a right as basic as that of freedom of conscience and of reason which is the foundation of a democratic system, because otherwise we would be living in a dictatorship or a tyranny", Rodriguez Martin explained.
"Will I have to leave my profession if the courts do not side with me? Only God knows but many times the truth is shown through martyrdom. And that is what we Catholic obstetricians are dealing with by acting morally consistent because we are charged with caring for life at its beginning and that is our mission in society", he said.
Rodriguez Martin said his objection to abortion is not only based on conscience but on science as well. "It's a human being that dies, and there is another human being that does the killing, and there is a woman who suffers the consequences, and a father that nobody talks about. But the human being who does the killing is not the woman but the doctor, and that goes against the essence of medicine. Therefore the argument is strictly scientific", he said.
Because there are so many interest at stake, the scientific society is not willing to acknowledge these scientific facts, Rodriguez Martin continued. "Obstetricians have no other choice but to appeal to conscience, but the reasons are ethical and scientific, not only religious", he said.
"I do not want to be an accomplice, I do not want to be an instrument, I do not want them to use my technical knowledge to support an ideology, to support a pro-euthanasia culture, to support the commercial, political and ideological interests of people who have intentions contrary to the dignity of man and human dignity, and that are totally unethical", the Spanish doctor said.
Catholic obstetricians "should recover the value of opposing the attack against life, of being a sign of contradiction, of calling things by their name, calling evil, evil, and good, good, sin, sin and grace, grace", Esteban Rodriguez Martin said. - CNA
*The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you [Esteban Rodriguez Martin] always. Amen*
You are my friends,
if you do what I command you.
I shall not call you servants anymore,
because a servant does not know
his master's business;
I call you friends,
because I have made known to you
everything I have learnt from my Father. - John 15:14-15 -
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