The responsibilities of a professional

[red_mage_jerry]

HHS, in the latest round of attempts to stymie woman's rights w/r/t abortion, has handed down a set of rules that will give a doctor or other practitioner a "shield" against being punished for refusing to perform an abortion, sterilization, or other similar medical procedure

Comments

[karthur]

*stands and claps*
Perfectly stated, sir.
Perfectly stated.

Also, I can't say: "Hey, I don't want that kid in my class! His beliefs conflict with my own!"

[red_mage_jerry]

Teachers are, indeed, the third True Service Profession.

[mullenkamp]

I'm still baffled that this is even a possibility. I mean, at my own job, I have to sell cigarettes. I loathe cigarettes and have lots of nice customers who smoke, and I wish they would stop because I don't care to see them die of lung disease.

However, if I refused to sell them cigarettes because of my personal belief that cigarettes are a terrible thing to inflict upon oneself, I would be fired.

That's just... how it works. Sheesh. If you won't do the job, don't take it.

[red_mage_jerry]

I think the problem arises from the fact that doctors and lawyers have many employers, instead of just one, and as a result, they feel free to pick and choose.

What they forget is that they also swore an oath when they entered practice...

[jpegasus]

you are so very eloquent and wonderful, and your professional rage is fabulous ^__^

[red_mage_jerry]

Thank you =) It's far better for me to indulge professional rage than actual rage - that tends to make me inarticulate ^^;

[illusionbreaker]

Lousy thing ate my entry. Anyway... I'd like to posit that the media is another service profession. Well, it USED to be and was supposed to be anyway

[red_mage_jerry]

I find it amusingly ironic that you and Nina, who got along like gasoline and match the last time you ran into each other on here, make the exact same point w/r/t those who entered practice before Roe and Griswald.

I find your last two points telling. Having had two semesters of graduate biochem (as an undergrad) was more than enough for me to know that birth control =/= abortofactant for any value of abortofactant close to the actual definition. I'm certain that med school and pharmacy school teach at least that much.