This was announced today: Bush administration issues final provider conscience rule
I did my part and wrote to HHS to express my displeasure a couple months ago; did you?
What an obnoxious thing to do. It's a big F-you from the lame duck administration to start the new administration off with an annoying thing to try to overturn.
Oh, but Obama had better overturn this thing, or you'll hear a lot more for me.
Provider conscience, my ass. Whatever happened to the conscience of doing the right thing for your patients?!
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This is so frightening - it had better be history as of January 21.
echoing crispin sartwell:
"what are some of the terrible things that have happened because people refused, on grounds of conscience, to perform their institutionally-defined functions? now what are some of the bad things that have happened because people violated their consciences and did what the institution demanded? always opt out in such circumstances, and always respect the decisions of others to do so."
also, why would obama overturn this?
obama would overturn this because he already said he would.
i understand the idea of refusing on the basis of conscience. but i refuse to understand why people will go out of their way to put themselves in situations that, when they refuse to do something, negatively affect other people. don't want to help women get an abortion? then don't become a nurse in an abortion clinic and then refuse to do your job! don't want to give a woman an abortion? fine, but you had better refer her to someone who will, not claim some bullshit that referring her to an appropriate medical provider will violate your own religious convictions. don't want to hand out plan B at the pharmacy? fine, but don't impede that customer's access to her 100% legal prescription by then confiscating it or refusing to refer her to another pharmacy or pharmacist. i will not, and cannot, support those people's "right" to refuse to do what they are ethically supposed to be doing when they sign up for the job they take. not when it puts other people's lives and health in danger and intervenes in the doctor-patient relationship.
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