[don-o]

Federal laws may make room for the rights of conscience, but health care providers — and all those whose jobs affect patient care — should cast off the cloak of conscience when patients' needs demand it.

I wonder how such a blatant and blunt bombshell as this made the final edit.

[hocndoc]

How about this complete change in the way the world works:

“As is often the case with laws touching on reproductive freedom, the debate is polarized and shrill. But there comes a point at which tolerance breaches the standard of care.”

[hocndoc]

For years, the “bioethicists” have been telling us that conscience is just another personally held belief that gets in the way of what they want us to do.

The irony, as Mad Dawg has pointed out, is that the author puts on a moral, “right thing,” “ought” argument, herself.

We “ought” to do something — but what is the basis of “ought”?

Law? law varies by region, local preferences and customs, and sometimes by the whim of a dictator, someone with a gun or an oligarchy representing itself as the judiciary.