You're right about the Oath.

The issue here is whether the Federal Government can usurp a right which isn't its. Over and over medical care has been a concern of the state, not the Feds.

A minor problem with that Oath is, as you say, the interpretation. NO physician has to participate in assisted suicide. None.

Second, if one has ever watched a procedure such as open-heart surgery, one is aware a lot of harm is done. A whole lot. Legs cut open, the chest laid wide open, violence is done to the body, and it's done first.

And, in fact, some folks die.

Yet no one is arguing against the process based upon that Oath. There is, as you suggest, a whole long of wiggle room, and if it were taken literally, there wouldn't be vaccinations, blood donations, etc.

Arf