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Are you sure you're talking about the right oath?

> [...] Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. But I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art. [...]

Doctors aren't even made to swear to this oath. They can if they want to, or another oath if they please, or no oath at all as far as I know.

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Most medical schools apply modern versions, most of which do not forbid abortion and are more secular than the original Greek oath.

> As of 1993, only 14% of medical oaths prohibited euthanasia, and only 8% prohibited abortion Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath#Modern_vers...

It is not rare to have people colloquially call these other forms of "the" oath many M.D. swear to the hippocratic oaths in my experience.

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