I think this illustrates exactly the crux of the matter. Liberals do not want you to have the ability to opt out on conscience whether it is abortion, teaching kids political propaganda or paying out the ying yang for government programs you don’t believe in. Liberty is the stake in the heart of liberalism. The Popular Sovereignty of a people choosing their own way is exactly what they do not want you to be able to do.
We need laws of conscience protecting the rights of religious people and all citizens to opt out. We need to be careful though. That ability to opt out may in the end provide an argument for the left to push through all kinds of horrible legislative ideas with the argument but “this doesn’t apply to you so why do you care”.
Posters on the Boston Herald message board that applaud the removal of the “Conscience Clause” justify they’re position by saying that those person “took an oath to be doctors”. Actually, they took an oath to do no harm. Both the old and new versions of the Hippocratic Oath contain prohibitions on abortion and Euthanasia.
And yet these same Liberal Looneys think the right of conscience should exempt a soldier who refuses to deploy with his unit if he has moral objection to the war.
They hate individual rights, they like collective ones. Individuals are so messy.