The technical question I have here is: what comes of it if Obama no longer tells his agencies to obey the law? If they then disobey the law, who has standing to bring action against them?
It is good to see that President Bush saw these rules as so important that he wasted no time and implemented them on the very first last day of his administration.
“But Berlinger, like many other opponents of the rules, thinks they are so vague that they would let any health worker object to providing any service at any time for any reason — even reasons that don’t necessarily stand up to scientific scrutiny.”
I have no problem with that. I’d rather have a nation that still values liberty than the Totalitarian Death State we are headed for.
I see nothing ‘controversial’ about a doctor refusing to perform treatments the state permits but that violate his own principles. Do we want doctor’s being forced to do lobotomies on ‘enemies’ of the state? participate in final solutions?
There you go. Force doctors to retire right before you add 20,000,000 patients to the medical rolls.
Good for these doctors.
I’ve selected new doctors in the past based on their willingness to provide care that I have strong moral beliefs against... switched obstetrics providers when I found out they perform abortions (rare, but they’re willing.) If I am opposed to euthanasia, I’m going to *want* to seek out medical caregivers similarly opposed. I go to a general practitioner who doesn’t prescribe narcotics, period.
Doctors should be free to live up to the Hippocratic Oath, in which they promise to not procure abortion, or seek to hasten death!
Well, there’s always Harvard or U of Chicago...
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I sure as hell would not. I would find a brain surgeon who took pride in his work and was not dragged to the table against his will. But that is just me.
People who want to have immoral procedures done, are free to put up enough cash to induce someone to make their dreams come true. It is called the marketplace.
It’s going to be pretty hard to bring charges against a physician because he or she refuses to kill.
It is unlikely to happen...
Dugg!
That’s it Obama America already has a severe shortage of OB?GYNs so let’s make it worse by making a bunch of them leave their practise.
Now that's a howler!