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[neadods]

Thanks to naamah_darling, I am aware that the Secretary of Health and Human services has a blog in which he defends the notion of reclassifying birth control as abortion. Which means, of course, that good Christians shouldn't have any truck with that

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[keltique]

BTW, there is a Second posting on this topic in the secretary's blog

comment 'awa!

grrrrrrr. hypocritical bastard. So where do the *patient's* right of conscience, or right to *recive* medical care fit into this?

[neadods]

You'll notice that all the people supporting this are defining their patient as the fetus, regardless of 1) actual pregnancy or 2) whatever said fetus might grow to believe. That's the patient who has rights.

The incubator can just fuck off if she's not rich enough to go shopping for less judgemental medicos.

[gonzai55]

It's absolutely baffling to me why anyone would take a job that oppositional to their own beliefs. I was desperate for work when I was offered a job working for a laboratory that experimented on animals; I turned it down, and wound up in bankruptcy, but I couldn't be involved with animal experiments.

[neadods]

They're doing it because their belief is that they have a right to force us all to live according to their religious dictates. Actually doing medicine is a distant second. "Do no harm" to a woman who doesn't follow their religion doesn't even make the running.

[not_hathor]

Huh. On the flip side, this past weekend we experienced a potential reverse of this situation, in that my father-in-law, being a praticing Jehovah's Witness, spent a good half hour lying in his hospital bed Friday evening making certain that the hospital, etc. had all the legal documents that forbade the doctors, etc. from violating FiL's religious principles by giving him a blood transfusion during the quadruple heart by-pass opertion he underwent Saturday morning.

If the surgeon had followed HIS conscience and ordered a transfusion in order to save FiL's life, he and the hospital would have been hit with a lawsuit so hard and so fast...!!!!

Fortunately, the surgery went like clockwork and the 'unholy' procedure wasn't necessary. But I really hate to think that it might become necessary to have the medical equivalent of a court order, just to be able to have a prescription filled or recieve emergency care.

[ginmar]

Oh, it's not about 'not doing the job.' They take the job so they can fuck with women. They know exactly what they're doing.

[neadods]

Exactly. Doesn't mean that we have to sit silently. And I think that pointing out how coercive and ridiculous the very same attitude is when applied to any other profession or religion is a good way to combat their concern troll tactics.

[cleothyla]

By the way, love your Icon. :)

[neadods]

I stole it from a T-shirt.

[cleothyla]

Sometimes those are the best ones. :)