Furthermore (egads I'm chatty today), as I was saying to a couple of people further up:
There appears to be a growing medical and legal movement of "conscience" in which the practitioners are deliberately choosing this field of medical practice in order to promote their religious views and impose them on their patients. They appear to feel that it's part of their religious calling.
While in theory I'm all on board with doctors who take their Hippocratic oath seriously behaving according to their conscience, I can't in good faith support legislation that would open the door to denying women this kind of care. It's easy enough to say "Well, just don't become an OB-GYN." The problem is that 1) Some people appear to be choosing that path specifically in order to promote their religious views, and 2) Sometimes there isn't any choice when it comes to which doctor to see, in remote communities for instance.
In the case of the U.S., there are added complications (which I don't think we even have in Canada). As ebonypearl put it:
Except the patient doesn’t get to have a choice. For many women, we already have to travel long distances to get to a single doctor who can or will perform necessary female medical procedures. In some cases, women have to travel out of state to get to the nearest doctor to help them – and, oh yeah – some states have made it a criminal offense for women to cross state lines for medical care.
On the face of it, the legislation makes a sad sort of sense. Once you start scratching at the surface, it looks really open to abuse.
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There appears to be a growing medical and legal movement of "conscience" in which the practitioners are deliberately choosing this field of medical practice in order to promote their religious views and impose them on their patients. They appear to feel that it's part of their religious calling.
While in theory I'm all on board with doctors who take their Hippocratic oath seriously behaving according to their conscience, I can't in good faith support legislation that would open the door to denying women this kind of care. It's easy enough to say "Well, just don't become an OB-GYN." The problem is that 1) Some people appear to be choosing that path specifically in order to promote their religious views, and 2) Sometimes there isn't any choice when it comes to which doctor to see, in remote communities for instance.
In the case of the U.S., there are added complications (which I don't think we even have in Canada). As
Except the patient doesn’t get to have a choice. For many women, we already have to travel long distances to get to a single doctor who can or will perform necessary female medical procedures. In some cases, women have to travel out of state to get to the nearest doctor to help them – and, oh yeah – some states have made it a criminal offense for women to cross state lines for medical care.
On the face of it, the legislation makes a sad sort of sense. Once you start scratching at the surface, it looks really open to abuse.