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Actually, they do not. It's not part of the Hippocratic Oath. They removed the abortion part too, y'know. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath https:

• throwup238 2y ago
  Well, shit. That’s what I get for listening to House. I didn’t know there was an abortion part. Do they at least learn the classical version at school and leave the modern one for the professional oath?
  • pas 2y ago
    it's unclear even what it ever meant (except for the most literal meaning) """ The interpreted AD 275 fragment of the oath contains a prohibition of abortion that is in contradiction to original Hippocratic text On the Nature of the Child, which contains a description of an abortion, without any implication that it was morally wrong,[16] and descriptions of abortifacient medications are numerous in the ancient medical literature.[17] The oath's stance on abortion was unclear even in the ancient world where physicians debated whether the specification of pessaries was a ban on simply pessaries, or a blanket ban on all abortion methods. """
• err4nt 2y ago
  see also the section about elective (medically unnecessary) surgeries and procedures too