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Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Outrageous!
Read this post the Perky Skeptic wrote on her blog and get as angry as I am about it! I totally hope this rule is changed about healthcare workers' being allowed to follow their moral/religious beliefs when treating patients. A horrifying example is this nurse who removed IUD's from women without their knowledge because she believed they are a form of abortion. Then there are those pharmacists who won't fill prescriptions for whatever bothers them. What are we coming to?
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It is outrageous! I've heard about it, didn't want to believe it, but guess I will now!
Wow...that's scary. YIKES!
Feel free to comment on her blog. She's my daughter-in-law.
I guess we need to check out the medical staff before we ever have anything done or try to get prescriptions filled!
Somebody needs to remind the lawmakers who passed that law that in America we're SUPPOSED to have a separation of church and state. You are guaranteed the right to your religious beliefs, practiced in your church and home. You are NOT guaranteed the right to impose your religious beliefs on my healthcare.
Is this rocket science???
Right! Separation of church and state needs to return! I totally agree with you.
Healthcare, for the moment, is not a part of the state, thank God. It is part of the free market, with emphasis on freedom. While I completely agree that it was morally and likely criminally wrong for the nurse to perform ANY medical procedure without the knowledge of the person it was being performed on, I also completely agree that pharmacists have the right not to sell drugs that go against their morals. Every pharmacy generally have more than one pharmacist on duty at any given time, so there's always the option of having the other one wait on those customers who want morning-after abortion pills or whatever. If we can make accommodations for Muslim cashiers not to ring up alcohol or pork products, why can't we make accommodations for Christians wishing to practice their beliefs? Of course I know the answer to this, but the question must be asked.
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