Doctors accuse Australian Medical Association of misleading public on ‘marriage equality’
by Michael Cook, MercatorNet:
A former state president of the Australian Medical Association is among a group of doctors urging the AMA to retract its “fatally flawed” position statement on marriage equality. The AMA document was published in May and endorses same-sex marriage.
The spokesman for the group, former Tasmanian president Chris Middleton has resigned from the AMA. He says, “The AMA has strayed into social activism and has mortgaged its credibility.”
“The position statement has very little to say about medicine and was little more than a politically motivated, ideologically-driven opinion piece which is dressed up as evidence-based health policy,” Dr Middleton told The Australian. “In other position statements they have gone into it in a detailed way, there has been a rigorous dispassionate, careful, sober and professional analysis of all of the arguments for and against and usually what you get is a very thoughtful outcome.”
In a 15-page critique, the dissenting doctors identify a number of misleading clinical claims, in particular the AMA’s assertion that there is no peer-reviewed evidence of poorer outcomes for children of same-sex parented families. They say that this is “unequivocally false”:
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