Your Doctor's Rights Vs. Your Rights
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provider conscience
Think of something to which you are adamantly morally opposed. You are at your job and your boss asks you to participate in that very thing. You refuse. Your boss threatens not only to fire you, but to end your career if you do not comply. Your next thought is, "my First Amendment Rights are being compromised!" You would be correct. Doctors, nurses, and healthcare workers cannot be coerced into going against their deeply held moral beliefs in this country. Yet it happens all the time in pharmacies, medical schools and residency programs. People who hold a pro-life viewpoint are discriminated against because of their beliefs. Why not take a true "pro-choice" stance and allow all people to choose to live according to their beliefs, free from discrimination, instead of only those that you agree with? We're simply talking about letting healthcare workers abstain from participating in something to which they are morally opposed. If you force me to participate, now you are forcing your beliefs on me. How dare you tell me what to do with my body?
Doctor's Rights
This is not a women's issue. It is a constitutional issue that places religion on an equal footing with state jurisdiction.
Personal beliefs and personal values are not the standards of equality in law.
Personal bias may reflect individual behavior, but it has no power to interfere with the personal values of others.
If religious beliefs are to be preserved, they must be kept separate from state jurisdiction.
Thank you, Deborah!
It is wonderful to see the mainstream media take this issue on with clarity and depth. I appreciate the ways in which you've covered this and the interview with Judy Waxman is great.
We have been covering the HHS regulations as well and hope that people will note how invasive and truly harmful these proposed rules would be for health care rights and access:
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/tag/hhs-comment-period
Thanks!
Amie Newman
RH Reality Check
www.rhrealitycheck.org
Thank you so much
Thanks for following these issues so closely and keeping us updated. I feel strongly that people should do their jobs. If they can't, they should get new jobs.
I'll be sending off that email!
