Thread by @dr_moayedi

I don't know who needs to hear this (@joycefr), but AAPLOG is a hate group that violates all 4 core principles of medical ethics and promotes experimentation on humans without consent. Your recent piece is irresponsible journalism *at best*. A 🧵

First, let's start with autonomy: the decision making process of the people we care for must be free from coercion. AAPLOG leverages their "status" as physicians to promote scientifically inaccurate information about #abortion and #contraception to promote an extremist ideology.

No matter your opinion on #abortion, the science is clear: Abortion is safe. Decades of research demonstrates the overwhelming safety of abortion. AAPLOG uses false information as coercion in medical care nap.edu/read/24950/cha…

How about #Justice? The idea that the burdens and benefits of experimentation must be equally distributed? Well, AAPLOG board member George conducts medical experimentation on scared, pregnant people without their consent. His "research" depends on capitalizing on vulnerability.

George's research doesn't center justice. He doesn't recruit #pregnant people equally to participate in his "studies", he doesn't even consent people (more on that). George uses a nurse help line to specifically target vulnerable pregnant people as research subjects.

Beneficence, you say? Well, it requires that the care we give is intended for good, that we consider the *individual* circumstance of patients and that we personally keep updated on *science* to provide a net "good".

But AAPLOG promotes scientifically inaccurate information. They created and trained a group of "expert" witnesses with the sole intent of testifying in cases to pass extremist restrictions on #abortion care. rewirenewsgroup.com/false-witnesse…

This should go without saying, but it's 2021 so I'll say it again. Restrictions on #abortion care harm our communities and endanger the people we are privileged to serve. Lying under oath to advance your extremist ideology, refuting clear scientific evidence, is not beneficence.

So let's round it out with non-malfeasance: do no harm to the patient involved or society. I can't believe I have to say this, but EXPERIMENTING ON HUMANS WITHOUT CONSENT IS HARMFUL. None of the pregnant people in George's studies were told they were being experimented on.

Pregnant people called a nurse help line, because they had been advertised a false product by AAPLOG. George's team then initiated them in studies of experimental medical treatments without telling them they were experimental medical treatments. This is malfeasance.

What happened when actual scientists studied George's "therapy" in an ethical, scientifically rigorous way? People got hurt and the trial was ended early. npr.org/sections/healt…

AAPLOG coerces unknowing pregnant people into dangerous medical experimentation without consent or oversight to promote an unscientific, extremist ideology. Interviewing AAPLOG members in a piece about *anything* and not mentioning their unethical practices is irresponsible.

And, finally. It's Jamila Perritt, MD, MPH, FACOG. @Reprorightsdoc is a Board Certified #OBGYN and Complex Family Planning Specialist. She is a physician, scientist, and leader. Please refer to her as such.🧵