Saturday, January 17, 2009
Bush Throws Fundies A Bone; Screws Most Americans
This is truly one of the most vile things the crazies in the radical Right got Shrub to shove through on his way out the door.2 comments
Lawsuits Filed Over Rule That Lets Health Workers Deny Care
Extremely Stupid Quote Dept.:"The regulation is important, because we increasingly are seeing discrimination against health-care personnel who hold religious beliefs having to do with abortion and contraception," said David Stevens, chief executive of the Christian Medical & Dental Associations. "Unless these conscience rights are protected, people are going to be driven out of health care."
No shit, Sherlock! As well they should be.
Just as the military isn't jake with members who cannot ethically agree to kill people—forgive me, but that's the job! If you can't do the job, get out. Do something else. No one will think less of you. Just leave. Everyone here needs to be on the same page. Neither of these professions can allow people to freelance and cherry pick what they will and will not do. These are professions where you take whatever comes at you, because you're needed. The job is the job. As long as it remains legal.
But that doesn't suit the anti-American fundie Right. The entire house must be redesigned and totally rebuilt to accommodate their wanting to shift their chair a tad at the table.
Each person retains their right to choose if they wish to follow the dictates of that profession. But no one has the right to re-mold their profession to suit their individualistic moral compass.
If you don't like kids, don't go into day care. If you're terrified of flying, don't become a pilot. If you can't swim, don't apply for a scuba job.
Simple.
If you can't handle all aspects of legal healthcare, don't go into healthcare. Sounds like the clergy or motivational speaking is more your line, in that case. If you've had nursing training but oppose abortion, fine. That's your right. But don't take a nursing job. You can still use your skills as a midwife, or conservative anti-abortion counselor.
You can always take a job as a nurse in a building that's clearly marked as a "Right-Wing Loon Anti-Abortion Hospital." That, at least, would be clear. But if it simply says, "Hospital," we're going to be coming to your for our abortions. That's the law.
As soon as you hang up a shingle as a healthcare provider or pharmacist, you're bound to provide healthcare and/or all legal drugs. Even if you can avoid participating, at the very least refer the patient to someone who can assist them. Health's first creed: Do no harm.
Otherwise, get out and find another line of work.
Period.
posted by Gotham 5:20 PM
2 Comments:
'Course he gets paid.
Saying what the privileged want said in defiance of empirical evidence, reason, or common sense? Priceless.
By 
Kyria, at
January 17, 2009 7:30 PM
"Health's first creed: Do no harm."
Exactly. Healthcare workers who oppose abortion do not do so out of some vague moral, religious, or political belief. The do so because performing or assisting an abortion would CAUSE HARM to what they consider to be a person, and therefore would violate the ethics of their profession.
If you believe that a fetus is not a person or does not have the same legal rights as a (born) person, fine. But your logic stinks.
By The Mommy Blawger, at
January 18, 2009 4:11 PM
