Posted on 02/21/2015 6:59:22 PM PST by daniel1212
Two Michigan parents said that a local doctor recently refused to see their six-day-old child because they are lesbians, the Detroit Free Press reported Wednesday...
Jami and Krista Contreras said they made an appointment with pediatrician Vesna Roi at the advice of their midwife, according to television station WJBK. But when they brought their daughter for an appointment with the pediatrician, they said they were met by another doctor who told them that Roi would not treat a baby with two mothers, according to the Free Press.
Roi sent a letter of apology to the parents, later acquired by the Free Press, in which she explained: "After much prayer following your prenatal, I felt that I would not be able to develop the personal patient-doctor relationship that I normally do with my patients." She added, "Please know that I believe God gives us free choice and I would never judge anyone based on what they do with that free choice."
Although the incident happened in late 2014, the couple only recently decided to speak about it, according to the Free Press.
See 32 and 39
If she had refused to treat in an emergency it would have been another story but the way it went down she was within her rights.
Yeah... a lot of the discussion here is not whether she is within legal rights, but whether it was right. The devil is in the details.
“...made an appointment with pediatrician Vesna Ro”
Had to look up Vesna.
Vesna (myth) -
The vesna or vesnas were mythological female characters associated with youth and springtime in early Slavic mythology, particularly within Croatia,[1] Serbia and Slovenia. Along with her male companion Vesnik, she was associated with rituals conducted in rural areas during springtime.[2] In the nineteenth century, Russian peasants celebrated the return of spring on March 1 by going out to the fields, carrying a clay figure of a lark on a pivot which had been decorated with flowers. They sang songs naming the spring season Vesna.[3] The word “vesna” is still the poetic word for “spring” in the Slovene language.[2] as well as Czech and Slovak. Also, vesna is a Russian word for spring. The month February is sometimes named vesnar in Slovene language.[2]
In Slovene mythology, the beautiful women called “vesnas” lived in palaces atop mountains where they discussed the fate of crops and of human inhabitants. A magical circle around their palaces kept them from leaving the mountain top except during the month of February, when they would travel in wooden carts down to the valley below. Only certain people were capable of hearing them singing. People who snuck up to their mountain palaces might learn their fates, but risked an unpleasant end if they were caught by the vesnas.[2]
The vesna was featured on a Slovenian postage stamp in 2005
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna
Vesna (name) -
Vesna is a popular South Slavic female name derived from the name of Vesna, an ancient Slavic goddess of spring. It means “spring” in some Slavic languages. It is in use in Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Slovenia, where it was the fourth most popular name for baby girls born in 2006.[1] It is also given in Australia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_%28name%29
The doctor is probably an Orthodox Christian or an old school Catholic that might have immigrated here.
So they did. That being the case, I now say the doctor did not act unethically.
I agree. One is either a healer or not.
I have a small business and have turned down jobs where I would not have felt right working with certain people.
I am not denying them the last drop of water on earth I am just not doing business with them. If they throw a hissy it is confirmation that I was right not to do business with them.
See 45:)
She might not have felt the most confident in dealing with such a situation.
It matters to various degrees.
This did not rise to the level of outrage of the baker asked to inscribe a cake to a “gay marriage.”
That is an excellent point.
It wouldn’t be an issue (if it truly is) is the doctor were Muslim.
The elephant in the room really is the gay lobby, who is in effect saying “Love us or we will bust your noses.”
It's not the child's fault.He/she has done nothing wrong.Yes,God is surely *very* displeased with the lives that the "parents" have chosen but wouldn't have been *at all* displeased with the child.Are there any other innocent children that you feel God would want to see denied medical care?
Just curious.
I can choose to do business only with left handed redheads with green eyes if I wish. Or not do business with left handed redheads with green eyes if I wish.
There might be exceptions for life or death situations but other then that my right to choose who I do business with should be inviolable.
The picture here is more complex. The doctor asked another doctor in the same office to see the child instead.
Perhaps as Jack H. surmised, the woman was a doctor with an Old World manner who would have lovingly embraced normal parents but was so put off by this surprise situation that she felt she could not practice effectively. There are always questions of capability to be had.
We really need to be hating the devils that are calling the “gay lobby” to bully so.
Once more you fall on your statement of a civil right.
I speak of rightness on a deeper level. Perhaps by access, the more conscientious physician could do more good than one who was more laissez-faire about homosexuality.
On the other hand as I have also surmised, the doctor could have felt inadequate.
The kind of jobs you do are not on the level of the practice of medicine. They just aren’t.
You may have a background in academic medicine, but you do not seem to understand everyday medicine any better than a layman. I remember a few years ago when I was looking for a new doctor, it was VERY important to me to find one with whom I had common ground in basic worldview and medical ethics. That is really what this is about, it is NOT about denying service to a child or “punishing” a child; the child was treated on schedule by a presumably competent physician, one who was undoubtedly a better match for these parents than the Christian doctor would have been.
Yup. You saved me some typing...
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