A subsidiary organization, which is under continuing development, the Oklahoma Physicians Resource Council (OPRC), provides Oklahoma's medical doctors and other health professionals statewide with an opportunity to speak out on medically related public-policy issues and legislation affecting families from a conservative, life-affirming, traditional medicine perspective.

Most often, OPRC-associated physicians and other health professionals make their views known through discussions with their colleagues, public and private correspondence, print advertisements, opinion-editorials published in various Oklahoma newspapers and in professional publications, and by volunteer service on medically related state boards and commissions.

When requested, physicians associated with OPRC are also available to offer expert testimony before legislative committees and interim-study hearings at the state Capitol in Oklahoma City.

Several OFPC members also volunteer their time to provide Central Oklahoma- and Tulsa-area public and private school students who participate in the KEEP abstinence-until-marriage program with medically-accurate information about sexually transmitted diseases and infections. They also teach young people, from their professional medical perspective, the real risks associated with early, unmarried sexual activity.

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Areas of particular interest for the OPRC membership include:

• affirming the sanctity of all human life from conception until natural death;

• opposing abortion, euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, abuse of the elderly and the disabled, embryonic stem-cell research, and the scientific pursuit of human cloning, all of which violate the purpose and worth of each and every life;

• upholding the traditional, ethical, and moral practice of medicine in Oklahoma, in ways which are consistent with the Hippocratic Oath;

• supporting sexual abstinence-until-marriage education for Oklahoma young people; and

• encouraging consumer-focused, free-market health care reforms, instead of government-driven reforms to create new health care bureaucracies, which will ration necessary patient care.

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OPRC Leadership:

Craig R. Evans, M.D., a family-practice physician in Edmond, Okla., and a member of OFPC's board of directors, is currently chairman of the Oklahoma Physicians Resource Council (OPRC).

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OPRC & You:

If you are a licensed Oklahoma physician (M.D. or D.O.), medical student, nurse, physician's assistant, or other medical professional, and you wish to help us advocate traditional, Judeo-Christian values in Oklahoma on medically related public policy and professional issues, OPRC invites you to join your voice with ours.

To learn more, please contact the Oklahoma Physicians Resource Council by mail, phone, or e-mail, as indicated below.

Contact Information:

Craig R. Evans, M.D.
Attn: OPRC
c/o Westbrook Family Physicians
1208 S.W. 15th Street
Edmond, OK 73013

Phone: (405) 340-2100
e-mail: CREvans@coxinet.net

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