Association of American Physicians & Surgeons (AAPS) and John M. Thorp, Jr., M.D.
Amici Curiae
Dorinda C. Bordlee, Counsel of Record The Association of American Physicians & Surgeons, founded in 1943, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to defending the practice of private and ethical medicine. John M. Thorp, Jr. is a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of North Carolina. Dorinda C. Bordlee is executive director and senior counsel of the Bioethics Defense Fund. She received her law degree from Loyola University in New Orleans in 1990. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for the Petitioner as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on August 8, 2005.Amici offer this brief…