Here's the thing. If you believe that action X is horrifyingly immoral, unethical and wrong, would you accept a law that insisted you do it?
Consider that a lot of the people who are against abortion see it as no different from killing babies -- would you kill a baby because its mother told you that, for whatever reason, it had to be done? You may say that it is in fact not the same thing at all, but put yourself for a moment in the shoes of someone who really and truly saw it as exactly the same thing.
To force a doctor to provide a service that he or she considers immoral would be to force your own version of morality on him: legislating morality, in other words, and no different from any law that forbids willing doctors from performing abortions. I'm no fan of Bush, but as I see it, this law seems eminently sensible.
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Consider that a lot of the people who are against abortion see it as no different from killing babies -- would you kill a baby because its mother told you that, for whatever reason, it had to be done? You may say that it is in fact not the same thing at all, but put yourself for a moment in the shoes of someone who really and truly saw it as exactly the same thing.
To force a doctor to provide a service that he or she considers immoral would be to force your own version of morality on him: legislating morality, in other words, and no different from any law that forbids willing doctors from performing abortions. I'm no fan of Bush, but as I see it, this law seems eminently sensible.