Reproductive Rights, the Hippocratic Oath & Virgin Sacrifice by Noel D. Smith
No rational argument exists to sacrifice the mother for a prince who will never open his eyes, who will never see the sun. The object of the game is to produce heirs to your legacy, not votes for some heretic's reelection. The Hippocratic Oath does not preclude surgical dilatation and curettage (D&C) in cases where carrying the fetus to term presents a high risk TO THE VIABLE DELIVERY OF AN HEIR. If the prince is important enough to sacrifice the mother by Cesarean section, the mother is important enough to save for another child.
Actual medicine has never been purely for profit. It is an artform, making the biophysician's guild a legal sovereignty. Aside from under fascist colonialism, it has always been from each according to his means to each according to his need. Research and medicine are different, and obviously farming is capitalism on nature, so this just has to do with ethical biophysical medical practice, per the Hippocratic Oath. What you think of as a doctor is still shaped by over 3,000 years of this stoic and prestigious oath, or something just like it, which is the reason we still use Greek words in science even though the Romans made Latin the law. It's the reason the Senate had the authority in the first place to demand Socrates drink hemlock to prove he wasn't a heretic. Hippocrates was merely the first we know of to put his name to a record which exists to this day.
As a natural study of Classical ethics I've revised the Hippocratic Oath in a practical context. It was abandoned in America with Roe v. Wade after the Vietnam War. I've tried to preserve as much of the original language from the translation at Johns Hopkins by Ludwig Edelstein as possible, while providing for the systemic failures which have allowed this war of terror to develop for so long. I hope that world governments will demand that anyone prescribing narcotics be directly responsible to a specific public office via this 3,000 year-old oath, without which alchemy would have been considered witchcraft. There has to be a limit to what we are willing to do to compete if we expect to retain our right to negotiate.
It's all about money and who is doing business with whom. This oath was not exclusive to biophysicians, but was a prerequisite for stoics, diplomats, and officers of the republic. In Rome, soldiers were given land for their service, and landowners were eligible for the Senate. This takes barbarians and terrorists out of the equation, reserving power for our true representatives with skin in the game. It's our first line of defense against corruption: "I'm afraid I can't do that, I have an oath." Undermining this authority negates it: it cannot be abused by undue influence.
I've also added stipulations to address gaps in accountability for surgeons and psychiatrists while preserving confidentiality. Note that the physician is ultimately responsible to their order of sovereignty: a guild master, priest, judge or senator for awards and liabilities. The insurance provider is subject to the same customs as any ambassador, but their trade rights are protected the same as anyone else's. They do not need to fund elections or otherwise threaten democratic process because public officials are competing for their product. They only have to lobby for the cost of legislation. If the lobbies are respected as legal entities, they avoid trading with and empowering terrorists or risk forfeiting patent registrations. If we do not recognize your patent, it is regarded as illicit. Confiscated pharmaceuticals may be sold back or used by contractors to synthesize new ones.
Democracy is not a for-profit venture, and neither is medicine. A diplomat, biophysician or otherwise, asserts stoic authority on behalf of an official who may reward or punish them the same as any other patron with a skilled artisan. Medical ethics are the root of classical authority. If it is not rationally demonstrable, it is not the will of the gods. If we are unworthy of their favor this land is promised to someone else. So if one would assert the authority of the angels, their right to do so must be guaranteed by a servant of our gods, our king, or our republic. A doctor from another country is still a obligated to render care in an emergency, but if their patron is not recognized by ours, they are just a tourist.
I presume when contraception was banned, it was the chastity belt - an iron diaper with a hole in it, and not an excuse to nerve-gas virgins. It was as much a "hygienic" measure as prophylactic. The God of the Jews and Catholics doesn't accept virgin sacrifice. (We just have different opinions on when life begins.) We're not cannibals or slave raiders. A child has no sin, they cannot enter enforceable contracts, and they require no forgiveness for being born. Some tribes couldn't always prevent rape so they installed a device to protect the legitimacy of their inheritance, but this was viewed as unnecessary in places where the church was respected and the law was enforced. It's like saying God is angry with you for preventing your child from being raped, so he gave them a rash. The church didn't want ignorant lords killing their children with preventable infections. So contraception was prohibited to prevent harm, not as an excuse to cause it. If it doesn't affect your ability to conduct your affairs in safety, you don't require protection from it by the law. The best way to attract faithful believers is not to make a mockery of yourself, your flock, and your gods.
In regard to the abortion clause; it does not summarily prohibit surgical dilatation and curettage (D&C), which, in turn, is not specific to abortion. Abortive unguents would have been prohibited since the toxic remedies of the time were as likely to void the patient as the phoetus whether prescribed by a biophysician or not. A woman can die of a miscarriage without D&C in modern times just as likely as she could have from Caesarian section 2,000 years ago. And where would the Vatican be without Caesar? Not to blaspheme, but if Mary had had an abortion, would Jesus not have been resurrected? It's a morbid thought, but it was Jesus. Of course He would. For the rest of us, the longer an unexpectant mother waits, the greater the risk of complications to her own health. If you cannot enforce shotgun weddings, you cannot prohibit abortion. That puts women in a position where they have to choose between falsely accusing a reluctant father of rape or carrying a bastard child to term before seeking a suitor who doesn't mind sharing part of his own legacy until the poor, unwanted kid can join the Navy as a swab or sell his soul and go work for Wall St. The depravity! Every child deserves both parents. Who can you trust when that isn't possible?
I confess I'm not an expert on brokerage recruitment practices, but I know they invest in pharmaceuticals and if we can't investigate insurance fraud they lose money. "If the people ever find out what we've done, they'll hang us from the lampposts." - George H. W. Bush, C.IA. Director, supposedly to his outfit. Well I liked H.W. so in order that their sacrifices not be made in vain, diplomats should begin immediately to tender their oath to the official they pledge fealty to whether they asked for it or not, en lieu of this becoming standard practice. That makes them tentative statesmen for diplomatic purposes. No need to sneak around, your office is grounds for war. State your business. The world is your oyster. "First, do no harm," then do not bring shame upon my house and do not come back empty-handed. Wall St. wants my business, not the other way around. This is authority. Religion you can bank on.
Diplomats must not lie to their sovereignty, and their sovereigns must not lie to Rome. This is ultimately the difference between a sin to be forgiven and a virgin sacrifice racket. It is the most fundamental sacred duty of the church to maintain a record of the nobility and the births and deaths of their heirs, that the flock be made whole and Rome may live forever.
If the father of an unmarried woman would risk excommunication for defying the church, a qualified surgeon may perform the procedure as long as the child is granted a certificate of death. It's not his responsibility and the church does not sully its reputation to legislate morality for the police to make a racket out of God's laws. Indulgences aside, the church will propose alternatives to abortion, but a certificate of death establishes that the child was not sacrificed to God. The closer the child is to opening its eyes, the greater the ethical implications, but it's hard to reconcile reverence for Mary with scandalizing unmarried mothers when you don't permit shotgun weddings. If a doctor's patronage allows abortion there's little the church can do about it without violating it's own status as a purely ecclesiastical authority. A death certificate is the law. The church doesn't punish sinners, God does.
See also: Psalm 58, where David's attitudes on the divine right to life echo the authority of the angels. The church protects the rights of the unborn, performs the sacraments and last rites, and represents this world to the next and vice-versa. But it's their detachment from worldly authority which guarantees the church will still be here when the state is just a chapter of history. So Roe v. Wade was a ruse to allow secular powers to rob the church by removing the Hippocratic Oath through which stoic authority is conferred.
The Catholics and Jews can be unyielding in their dogma and principles, but losing an eternal battle is not part of their religion. This cannot be said for all traditions. The democracy is an experiment - our experiment. Where convention dictates that the state is god, the church proves it is not ours. We were created in God's image: failure is not an option, so we must take responsibility for the practical application of our covenants in the context that reality must be the uncontested will of God. We must provide a future for our children worth dying for, only then can it be worth living.
But Islam isn't compatible with the Ancient Greeks, so they invented yet another supernational secular authority and used it as a platform to sabotage our sovereignty. Roe v. Wade was just an excuse for the U.N. to make us abandon the basis of our ancient stoic authority so they could lead our judges by the hand to injustice and throw our doctors to the lions like foreign wizards. You know what they do to bankers who worship foreign gods in France?
A doctor is a diplomat who belongs to somebody important. Our doctors must be qualified to carry out the demands of civilized diplomacy. If foreigners can come assert the power to arrest, our currency is worthless. It might just be a democracy, but there is a government. Everyone likes our money. You don't come all the way from the other side of the planet to persecute us. You bring your grievances to our government or our temple and leave it in the hands of somebody qualified. You see the big white house? This ain't it.
The Catholic church cannot be seen as protecting barbarians. Virgin sacrifice is a threat to our sovereignty. But as long as the state defines it as a medical procedure resulting in death, the child's ancestral origin can be accounted for. It wasn't sacrificed to our gods or foreign gods, it was a legal, medical procedure, performed in the best interest of the affected community and for the greater good. Our religion is not superstition to control the peasants, it is a rational code of ethics shared by men of consequence around the world for thousands of years. It is just cause for war because it works for everyone, forever. We must demonstrate good faith to the Vatican so they can protect us from unreasonable cults, interim regimes, and dumb kings. To appease the church, there must be a certificate of death with a name they can pray for.
This is how to win your war on crime, war on drugs, and "war on terror." It's not blasphemy. Do you want the job, or not?
The Hippocratic Oath: Revisited
I swear by (your gods) and all the saints and prophets, making them my witnesses, that I will fulfill according to my ability and judgment this oath and this covenant:
To honor my mentor in word and deed, sharing this knowledge with those who faithfully represent my order of sovereignty.
First, I shall do no harm. I shall guard my charge from injustice. I will prescribe holistically and to precise measure.
I will not prescribe euthanasia or chemical abortion, or otherwise dilute the integrity of my order.
- General practitioners will maintain confidential records and prescribe common treatments.
- Specialists, including emotional disorder therapists, will be provided by the public.
- Surgical theater will be performed as if the procedure were being demonstrated for a class, allowing spontaneous procedural and facility audits via a quarantined balcony.
House calls will be specific, keeping the confidence of other residents in mind. No divine retribution will be enacted until time is set aside for that purpose. No other business will be engaged in during the course of this duty to the community.
If I fulfill this oath and do not violate it, may it be granted to me to enjoy life and art, being honored with fame among all men for all time to come; if I transgress it and swear falsely, may the opposite of all this be my lot. (unchanged)
(Original) Translation from the Greek by Ludwig Edelstein. From The Hippocratic Oath: Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1943.
Updated by Noel D. Smith in 2021 A.D.
*I added the part about general practitioners, surgeons, and specialists to help define separation between medicine and free trade in the context that as long as science is not exploited for lack of oversight, research will always be a capitalist venture. The reason for a quarantined balcony is so that third parties cannot be prevented from witnessing malpractice, accidental or otherwise.
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