First. Do no harm.
Committed to publicly advocating for the care and preservation of all human life, from conception to natural death, within Idaho's medical community.
The Idaho Committee for Hippocratic Medicine (ICHM) is an organization comprised of medical professionals and allied organizations from across Idaho and the nation.
Our Mission
Guided by the time-honored principles of our Hippocratic medical tradition to "Do No Harm" we are committed to publicly advocating for the care and preservation of all human life within Idaho's medical community and in Idaho public policy.
Advocate
Advocate for medical professionals and their institutions to honor their Hippocratic duty by recognizing and treating the preborn child as a distinct, second patient endowed with intrinsic value equal to that of the mother or any other patient entrusted to their care.
Preserve
Preserve preborn human life by rigorously upholding and safeguarding Idaho’s Defense of Life Act.
Elevate
Elevate the standard of care within Idaho’s medical institutions, with a particular focus on reproductive and end-of-life care.
Enhance
Enhance and sustain community trust in Idaho’s healing professions by firmly standing for truth in medicine.
Protect
Steadfastly protect and support Idaho's medical professionals who are committed to the highest standards of Hippocratic medicine.
Our Creed
WE BELIEVE
Our calling as healers compels us to strive for the greatest good of every human individual affected by our medical decisions.
WE BELIEVE
The highest quality of medical care never involves the intentional harming or killing of an innocent human being.
WE BELIEVE
All members of the human family are made in the image of their Creator and as such are divinely imbued with intrinsic value.
WE BELIEVE
The established scientific facts of embryology that affirm a living genetically distinct and whole human individual comes into existence at the moment of conception and thereby represents the smallest member of the human family.
WE BELIEVE
Human dignity and value are shared maximally and equally among all members of the human family from the beginning of life at conception until life's end at natural death.
WE BELIEVE
The unborn human individual’s right to live is irrevocable and inviolable at every moment of existence.
WE BELIEVE
It is prima facie morally wrong to intentionally kill an innocent member of the human family; the unborn human is an innocent member of the human family; a successful abortion always kills the unborn human; therefore every abortion is prima facie morally wrong.
WE BELIEVE
Human gender is intrinsically linked to biological sex an inherent unalterable binary characteristic determined at fertilization by genes present on the X and Y chromosomes defining the person's reproductive role as male or female. Compassionate and competent medical decision-making recognizes and respects this biological reality.
WE BELIEVE
Human value is not determined or diminished by phenotype or genotype mental capacity, physical size or ability, economic power or cost of care, level of development, or degree of dependency the circumstances of conception gestational age or birth status.
WE BELIEVE
Care discrimination or favoritism originate from eugenic conceit and are reprehensible examples of medical injustice that hold no legitimate place in the medical profession.
WE BELIEVE
Maternal bodily autonomy is limited and does not supersede or supplant the bodily autonomy of the unborn child she carries in her womb any more than if she carried that same child in her arms.
WE BELIEVE
Despite our profession's moral inconsistency and lapses, it has the noble heritage and solemn duty to practice medicine according to those honorable doctrines enshrined in the ancient Hippocratic tradition.