| Health Workers' Choice Debated
Proposals Back Right Not to Treat
By Rob Stein
More than a dozen states are considering new laws to protect health workers who do not want to provide care that conflicts with their personal beliefs, a surge of legislation that reflects the intensifying tension between asserting individual religious values and defending patients' rights. About half of the proposals would shield pharmacists who refuse to fill prescriptions for birth control and "morning-after" pills because they believe the drugs cause abortions. But many are far broader measures that would shelter a doctor, nurse, aide, technician or other employee who objects to any therapy. That might include in-vitro fertilization, physician-assisted suicide, embryonic stem cells and perhaps even providing treatment to gays and lesbians. |
If you don't want to dispense these prescriptions, go get a job at a company that won't require you to dispense them. If this is something that people are clamoring for, no doubt there will be a chain of fundamentalist pharmacies opening around the nation any day now. Isn't that how the free market that conservatives supposedly worship supposed to work?
Please stop the madness, I desperately want to get off.
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