The Daily Beast, on Monday (December 6), called attention to what they described as “Dr. Oz’s Shameless Flip-Flop on Abortion.”
They wrote – When the Supreme Court heard arguments last week for a case that could upend abortion rights nationwide, Mehmet Oz—the TV doctor and accused “quack” turned Republican candidate for Senate in Pennsylvania—suggested he was at peace that the Supreme Court could overturn Roe v. Wade.
But only two years earlier, Oz characterized efforts to overturn Roe as a misleading and possibly conspiratorial crusade. Not only was Oz supportive of abortion rights, he seemed puzzled that people would spend time fighting abortion rights—going so far as to say that, as a physician, he was “really worried” about the anti-abortion movement and that eliminating Roe would have negative effects on women’s health.
May 19, 2019
“This whole thing about heart beating – there are electrical exchanges at six weeks, but the heart’s not beating.”
“It’s a big-time concern. I went to medical school in Philadelphia, and I saw women who’d had coat-hanger events.”
“I wouldn’t want anyone in my family to have an abortion … but I don’t want to interfere with everyone else’s stuff.”