Petition calls for Dr Pansy Lai to be degistered after Coalition for Marriage ad
AN online petition has been disabled after gay marriage supporters called for a Sydney doctor’s medical licence to be revoked after she appeared in an ad for the ‘no’ campaign.
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AN online petition has been disabled after gay marriage supporters called for a doctor’s medical licence to be revoked after she appeared in an ad for the ‘no’ campaign.
The petition, calling on the Australian Medical Association to ‘review the registration’ of Dr Pansy Lai, was shut down because of inappropriate content after attracting more than 6200 signatures so far on Communityrun.org, a site run by left-wing activist group GetUp!
The Sydney based, Chinese-born paediatrician was one of three mothers who appeared in the Coalition for Marriage campaign ad.
The petition accuses Dr Lai of “wilfully spread misinformation and non-scientific evidence in order to promote the discrimination of LGBTIQ people in Australia”.
The petition claims: “The Australian Medical Association has adopted the World Medical Association’s (WMA) Declaration of Geneva as a contemporary companion to the 2,500-year-old Hippocratic oath for doctors to declare their commitment to their profession, their patients, and humanity. Dr Pansy Lai has undertaken this oath as part of her registration as a medical practitioner in Australia.
“It is clear that Dr Pansy Lai has misused her privileged position as a medical practitioner in the harmful and hateful ‘no’ campaign, which is a clear violation of her oath to the Declaration. She has used her standing as a medical professional to directly cause harm to the LGBTIQ population, in direct opposition to her ethical obligation to be supporting the health and welfare of people.
“We urge the Australian Medical Association and Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency to investigate Dr Pansy Lai’s use of her profession in a public political manner to cause harm due to the serious nature of the breach she has undertaken.”
Dr Lai did not disclose she was a doctor in the ad. She was identified by the media after the video aired.
Dr Lai told The Australian she had reported to police one threat that she would be shot “this week”.
She also said her supporters in the Australian-Chinese community were “very alarmed and concerned that someone is trying to destroy my livelihood just because I spoke up for family values”.
The AMA has endorsed the ‘Yes’ campaign, sparking a division among its members.
Coalition for Marriage spokeswoman Monica Doumit told The Australian the threat to Dr Lai’s career would apply to any doctor who spoke against the ‘Yes’ case.
“In seeking to ruin the career of a doctor who dares to disagree with its agenda, the same-sex marriage lobby has shown, yet again, that it has no interest in freedom of speech,” Ms Doumit said. “The petition against Dr Lai is a threat not only to her, but to any others who might try to voice their opinion. The message is loud and clear: agree on same-sex marriage or else.”
Originally published as Petition calls for Dr Pansy Lai to be degistered after Coalition for Marriage ad
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