For more on the history of this "midnight regulation" that was in the works for 2 years, see my blog: http://www.lifeethics.org/www.lifeethics.org/2008/11/why-we-need-legal-protection-for.html and http://www.lifeethics.org/www.lifeethics.org/labels/conscience.html
or better, still, see "Freedom2Care," an organization of the best minds in the prolife, profamily movement: http://www.freedom2care.org/ Where you can respond to the HHS and those of you in medicine may report incidents of discrimination against you that happened because of your refusal to kill.
“First: Do No Harm”
“Conscience is a burden that belongs to the individual professional; patients should not have to shoulder it.”
Yes, this woman really says this.
This guy is an absolute moron. So Bush is evil because he tried to define ambiguities in the law??? According to this guy, the law is suppose to be ambiguous so no one knows what the law is, so the courts can do their thing and arbitrarily decide what the law means? What a moron.
It's ironic that the date of publication should be the day when some Christians observe that the Incarnation of God took place not when he was born but when he was conceived.
And one of the deaths implicit in this document is the death of conscience. Another is the death of reason. What this guy is saying is that one SHOULD do not what one thinks one should, but what the law says one may. But the next step is one should do not what one thinks one should do but what the writer thinks one should do.
That is he says health care types shouldn't follow their conscience but what he MEANS is they should reform their conscience, they should change their opinion of right and wrong.
And the truly vicious aspect of this (or ONE of many truly vicious aspects) is that he implicitly characterizes being true to one's principles as being selfish. To abandon conscience is to be selflessly professional.
Let's review: The argument comes down to: you should not be guided by what you think is right or wrong; you should be guided by what the writer thinks is right or wrong, because his moral vision is better than yours. There is a moral imperative to abandon YOUR moral imperative. Your conscience should tell you not to follow what your conscience tells you.
It's nihilism of the most absurd kind cloaked as liberal selflessness.
Being neutral in providing an abortion is to abstain! If you provide the abortion, you are siding with the women's selfish interest over the best interest of the child to live.
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These monsters want a civil war.
The ever despicable Julie Cantor is NOT identified as the Planned Parenthood spokesperson that she is.
This was an evil totalitarian commentary by a monster.
Trying again on those url’s
http://www.lifeethics.org/www.lifeethics.org/2008/11/why-we-need-legal-protection-for.html
and http://www.lifeethics.org/www.lifeethics.org/labels/conscience.html
or better, still, see “Freedom2Care,” an organization of the best minds in the prolife, profamily movement: http://www.freedom2care.org/
where you can respond to the HHS and those of you in medicine may report incidents of discrimination against you that happened because of your refusal to kill.
I wonder how such a blatant and blunt bombshell as this made the final edit.
If PCR is rescinded and is unambiguous in intent, scope and penalty, the path the conscientious objector must take is clear.
The only path is resistance. The only choice is defiance. The Socialist government that is now so infatuated with murdering our progeny must be forced to put up or shut up. The ball must be placed squarely in their court.
What was true for the Continental Congress is also good “medicine” for us in the present; If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately. Organized and unwavering resistance is the only Rx for such tyranny. If these Socialists close hospitals and suspend licenses to practice, this bit of treachery will be short-lived. Americans will not stand for this for very long.
When citizens see their local hospital close and their choices for medical professionals dwindle, the pitch forks and torches will come out rather quickly. The key is a united front and Life Ethics and others will be seminal in the success of this fight.
The medical profession had better start bracing for the next round of government control.
Your fee schedule will be mandated by Obama, and you will embrace it or: lose you license to practice and/or lose all government payments.
Concerning euthanasia, every doctor knows he or she is morally obliged to act in favor of the health of the patient. How could a patient be healthier dead?
Concerning physician-assisted suicide, everyone who has paid attention to the record in the Netherlands, Oregon and elsewhere, knows that most suicide-requests are occasioned, not be intractable pain, but by fear of pain, fear of degrading dependency, and the depression inevitably associated with chronic fear. Why would an ethical physician not attack the pain, the fear, and the depression, and instead collude in an attack the patient?
Hippocrates had this all covered in the 5th century BC.
This author, no doubt with the most impeccable academic and professional credentials, would drag us so far below the ethical standards of the ancient pagans, down the the level of the witch-dctor, who could be depended on to serve up life or death, a remedy or a poison, thriving childbirth or sterility and stillbirth, a blessing or a curse, sanity or madness, depending on who was paying.
And as you said so well,Mad Dawg, this attack on conscience is in fact an attack on reason. Conscience itself is simply reason in its capacity to assess evidence and experience, logic and sensible inference, and make a sound moral judgment. This is a judgment which is equally accessible the minds of Jews, Christians, Buddhists, agnostics, pagans (e.g Hippocrates) --- all ---because of our shared nature as rational beings.
Indeed, when Gentiles,
who do not have the law,
do by nature
things required by the law,
they are a law for themselves,
even though they do not have the law.
They show that the requirements of the law
are written on their hearts,
their consciences also bearing witness,
and their thoughts now accusing,
now even defending them.
Romans 2:14-16