are you fucking kidding me?
Sep. 15th, 2004 09:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
moonwiseFrom CNN:
'Conscience clause' grows in health care
A little-noticed provision cleared the House of Representatives last week that would prohibit local, state or federal authorities from requiring any institution or health care professional to provide abortions, pay for them, or make abortion-related referrals, even in cases of rape or medical emergency.
In Mississippi, a bill became law in July that admirers and critics consider the nation's most sweeping "conscience clause." It allows all types of health care workers and facilities to refuse performing virtually any service they object to on moral or religious grounds.
Absolutely unreal. So it's legal in Mississippi to refuse me my BC pills/patch? Thank god I live in the Northeast rather than the Bible Belt, though nowhere is safe from this kind of bullshit.
'Conscience clause' grows in health care
A little-noticed provision cleared the House of Representatives last week that would prohibit local, state or federal authorities from requiring any institution or health care professional to provide abortions, pay for them, or make abortion-related referrals, even in cases of rape or medical emergency.
In Mississippi, a bill became law in July that admirers and critics consider the nation's most sweeping "conscience clause." It allows all types of health care workers and facilities to refuse performing virtually any service they object to on moral or religious grounds.
Absolutely unreal. So it's legal in Mississippi to refuse me my BC pills/patch? Thank god I live in the Northeast rather than the Bible Belt, though nowhere is safe from this kind of bullshit.
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Date: 2004-09-16 07:35 am (UTC)Hippocratic. ::whack:: Oath. ::whack:: You. ::whack:: Jackasses! ::whack::
Sigh. This is gonna cause more legal entanglements over the next decade than I want to even contemplate. The Mississippi law especially - it's so vague that I could refuse to perform *any* surgery based on religious/moral grounds. What happens when they get a criminal suspect in an ER that needs treatment? Can I refuse to operate on him on the basis of eye for an eye? Can I say that morally I can't waste my time on someone who broke the law when I have cases for so-called good people? Am I allowed to break doctor/patient privilege as a matter of religious duty?
Jesus wept.