begins to get concerned when
he is called on to do four or five
abortions on the flame person"
and sees abortion being used
as birth control, And most
physicians are increasingly
and uncomfortably aware of
the paradox of being asked to
"work desperately to Have a
baby in a high risk preg•
nancy" and then abort another
life at the same stage of de.
velopment,
The variety of rabbinical
opinion — "and I'm just talk-
ing about Orthodox opinion"
— emphasizes the complexity
of the problem,
"I practice medicine in a
secular world," Platt says, "I
don't allow my religious views
to be compromised, I do not
perform abortions, But I don't
attempt to proseletize my
patients or attempt to , • dis•
ba great deal with birth de.
gal,
feels" where the implication
of whether or not to abort are
very significant, "I present the ,
facts, I don't force that decision
on anybody,"
Aware of all the overtones
and complexities, Platt cannot
"be a party to a campaign to
aggressively change the ober•
Lion law totally," Nor, given,
the fact of legal abortion, does
he approve of the abolition of
Medicaid funding, "That is the
worst thing you can do, The
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