One does not have to be ultra “learned” to respect the classic American model of freedom which came from the scriptures themselves.
Your “right” to do what you want with your body in the name of “medical care” (shades of Sandra Fluke?) is in tension with the physician’s conscience rights.
America classically solved this problem by saying okay, the doctor is not your slave and vassal. It’s OK for some to refuse to do certain things by conscience. However if you find a willing physician we will not ban you or the physician from doing what you choose.
If you do not want to accept this classic solution, we have a problem here, Houston. And I thoroughly believe I have taken the high road in addressing it.
For all your talk of statism, it never dawned on you that this physician was perfectly willing to do the vasectomy, he just demanded permission from a third party before he would do it.
The moral ground was lost at that point.
The next time you’re in the emergency room with a broken leg, broken arm, crushed ribs, a stroke or a heart attack, I hope you’re able to contact your wife right away. Otherwise important time sensitive medical care will not be provided, while you continue to quote verses from 1st Corinthians to the medical staff. Of course if you’re unconscious, they’ll still have to wait for permission from your wife since they’re acting ethically.
Your premise would also prevent them from providing medical care on an accident site, or any place where they happened to be called to give you medical care.
I suggest you get a medical card for your wallet, and put the 1st Corinthians chapter and verse on a bracelet or necklace too.
“Be advised any medical personnel, I do not have authority to grant you permission to provide emergency medical service. Please contact my wife when you get a chance. Until then, do not lay hands on me.”
I’d sure hate to think you or your wife would die face up bleeding out on a highway, because one of you left home and forgot your cell phone, but what the hey, you followed 1st Corinthians all the way.
Gotta have that permission from the spouse folks. That’s God’s will. Anything else is unethical...