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11th Commandment:

If a doctor or a pharmacist is, indeed, "ethically" "obligated" to cooperate in any way whatsoever in the killing of innocent unborn children, then those professions need to be controlled by a pro-life mentality from the outside as necessary because they recognize no ethical or moral principles.

I can as easily forgive Dr. Carson's error of 1993 if he indeed repents of it as an error and a moral failing. OTOH, this is strike two following his curious view that the 2nd Amendment RTKBA does not apply in our inner cities. Even SCOTUS knows better on that. I also think that if this winnows out Dr. Carson's POTUS candidacy, that is OK. We need to start thinning the herd of candidates and we will not be thinning out Trump any time soon or until we can consolidate actual conservative support behind a candidate (Cruz, Walker?). Trump is not and never has been and never will be a trustworthy conservative.

On a moral AND ethical scale, referring a patient to an abortionist or abortion mill (with the sole exception of a clear and imminent threat to the life of the mother) or facilitating abortion prescriptions is an abomination and an atrocity and one that occurs quite unnecessarily more than a million times per year for 42 years now. That is just surgical abortions. Then there are RU-486, "morning after pills," IUDs, and chemical abortion related to certain "birth control" pills. Welcome to Margaret Sangerland and remember that Jesus Christ is coming back and is probably none too amused.

In our society, each married person is allowed to end his or her marriage by divorce. Why don't we allow anyone so inclined to hire a professional killer to dispose of an inconvenient spouse while avoiding court complications over alimony, child support, custody of children and distribution of property? And don't say (since 1973) that hiring a hitman is prohibited because of our regard for human life.

I am sometimes perplexed how conversations grow on FR. I am not sure how so much content was directed at me when my orginal post was to "wagglebee" who honestly missed the entire point of my original post and apparently continued to make the same wrong point to me and others. That point is simply, which to your credit you understood, Dr. Carson was under an ethical obligation to make a referral. Apparently, wagglebee only thinks this ethical obligation is for necessary medical needs. As I pointed out and will give another example, this would preclude Catholic Doctors and Pharmacist from providing referral for couple interested in birth control pills.

The Catholic prohibition on Birth Control goes to sexuality in marriage and not to question that life begins at conception. As such Birth Control is acceptable to many Christians but unnecessary to the conservative Catholic health care provider. Taking wagabees point to conclusion, the Catholic health care provider can just act clueless when asked about birth control.

Again, I think you understand this point but you want a pro-life mentality with this doctor. I am sure that eats at Christian Doctors and I hope they refer to abortionist that at least care about the mother. The other choice is for Christians to entirely exist the medical field. Given the growing number of bio-ethical issues, I would find this disturbing.