::As an outside party, I have to say that when I read your comment, the wording ''did'' seem to imply that abortionists had taken the Hippocratic Oath and then violated it. The ''and'' connects one claim of transgression (incompetence in violation of the hospital rules they agreed to abide) with a second (abortions in violation of the Hippocratic Oath). The abortionists are posited as violators in both cases, and by a natural extension that implies that the Hippocratic Oath is a rule the abortionists also agreed to follow. | ::As an outside party, I have to say that when I read your comment, the wording ''did'' seem to imply that abortionists had taken the Hippocratic Oath and then violated it. The ''and'' connects one claim of transgression (incompetence in violation of the hospital rules they agreed to abide) with a second (abortions in violation of the Hippocratic Oath). The abortionists are posited as violators in both cases, and by a natural extension that implies that the Hippocratic Oath is a rule the abortionists also agreed to follow. |