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The WMA Congress meets in Rotterdam this October to consider this petition.
The right response is simple: reject it. Unanimously.
Medicine must heal, not divide. Medical associations should be judged by standards of medical ethics — applied equally to all 117 members, based on evidence, not political pressure campaigns.
The moment we expel medical bodies based on political litmus tests is the moment we destroy the neutrality that makes global medicine possible.
Defend the IMA. Defend medical neutrality. Defend the principle that a physician's allegiance is to the patient — not to the mob.
The Lancet should be ashamed. And every physician who values science over activism should say so — loudly — before October.