Medical refusal rule may go far beyond abortion (Good?)
Reporting from Washington The outgoing Bush administration is planning to announce a broad new “right of conscience” rule permitting medical facilities, doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other healthcare workers to refuse to participate in any procedure they find morally objectionable, including abortion and possibly even artificial insemination and birth control.
Source: Latimes
What do you think? Good or not so good?
I vote “good.” In a better world government couldn’t dictate hospital policy, but in a better world we wouldn’t have abortion on demand. In our “second best” world, we can at least protect those who refuse to participate.
The ‘right of conscience’ is a tough spot, unless you are the one being aborted. The Catholic Church has suggested closing hospitals and birth units that under Obama, would allow to be performed. That One clearly made his intentions known; he would not want to “saddle his daughters with a baby” if they made a mistake.
What happen to taken responibility for your actions?