I’m Not Feeling You Broadened Abortion Definition
So there are a bunch of Federal Laws which basically say that if you’re a doctor, nurse, or other medical practitioner and it’s against your religion to perform an abortion, the institution you work for can’t make you or fire you. Which is fucked. So now, the Health department under the Bush Administration is saying that under that law, the same medical practitioners can also refuse to prescribe the “Morning After Pill” and birth control pills. Which are apparently now a form of abortion. Here’s the thing about this.
A) If you get raped by your dad in a county where the only doctors within 100 miles are douche bags… congratulations you’re having a cyclops!
B) I don’t believe in god, so I’m not going to become a priest. Similarly, if you have religious beliefs which prevent you from the practice of medicine, maybe don’t become a medical practitioner. Perhaps wizardry is more to your liking.
C) This is nice because with the election and everything I was starting to sort of forget how much I hate that George W. Bush guy.
so that turkey eating W’s balls….that’s an abortion too, right? George is aborting millions of babies in one instant. George W Bush is a baby killer.
hmmm…
My real issue with a lot of pro-life legislation is that I don’t believe that it is the Gov’s decision to legislate morality one way or another. Whether or not abortion is a morally or spiritually wrong thing, it shouldn’t be up to some asshole old white dudes to actually LEGISLATE morality. However, I think that that works both ways. If a person, right wrong or indifferent, feels that they do not want to perform a certain medical procedure out of a personal sense of morality, I do not think that it should be a crime. If the only doctors for 100 miles are all douchebags, perhaps it is time to consider relocating (although I have a hard time believing that this would ever be the case), but I don’t believe that it would be the right thing for our “government” to force them to perform a procedure that they didn’t want to do.
“congratulations youre having a cyclops!” <best
hey weird bizarro Sam, you know who else uses quotation marks around the word government? libertarians. but no, seriously, you’re right, we should totally lay off religious zealots. oh, and also, what’s with all this income tax? while we’re at it, maybe we should get the hell out of the U.N., end this birthright citizenship bullshit and buy every American a gun. i know, i know, some nervous nancies say that, coupled with jury nullification, repealing all those laws would allow state militias to run around shooting immigrants only to be acquitted by xenophobic juries of slack-jawed yokels. but i have a hard time believing that this would ever be the case.
oh, be still my heart… well said dude.
Hmm… say ACP, do I detect a hint of sarcasm?
Income tax happens to be unconstitutional, immoral and unnecessary. So… yeah. You also didn’t really address my point, which is that the Gov’s job is simply not to legislate morality. You simply lashed out with some silly stereotypes. I am by no means a Libertarian, but yeah, we should “lay off” of people’s beliefs no matter how silly they may seem to us. There are PLENTY of doctors who are not evangelical Christians who take issue with this. I would even hazard a guess that the vast majority of them aren’t. A person has a right to say that s/he doesn’t want to perform a certain type of surgery if it contradicts their beliefs. If members of the Church of the Spaghetti Beast from Space held a silly belief about not performing root canals on suffering patients, it would be weird, but hell find another dentist. I fail to see how it would be ethical to force them to… It also hardly leads to a breakdown of society with armed mentally deranged fundamentalists shooting down minorities… I fail to see any connection between what I said and your response. Also, wow, talk about pessimistic man.