The President is about to piss off a whole lotta people, but I'm not one of them.
An anonymous source has leaked that President O is going to eliminate a rule that my nemesis GW issued right before he left office. The rule speaks to an issue that has infuriated me for a long time: the "right" of health care professionals to refuse to provide care that violates their conscience. Check out the arcane details of the proposed rule recision here.
What's with this "I can't fill a birth control pill RX because it violates my conscience" crap? OK, you're a pharmacist who is against birth control? Then don't become a pharmacist. Become a chemist instead. You a nurse who doesn't want to pull the plug on a vegetative patient? Don't work in an ICU, nursing home, subacute facility or hospice. Work in a pediatrician's office that doesn't face these ethical dilemmas.
Seriously, can you imagine a cop who had issues of conscience with arresting speeders? Or a science teacher who refused to teach zoology because it included sexual reproduction? Hey, if you oppose educating people on the biology of sex, become a damn math teacher.
It is absurd that people put themselves in professional situations that, by definition, require you to violate your beliefs, and then bitch because they have to do things they find reprehensible. Grow up. Pick another profession for crying out loud. I started out my nursing career in oncology. I repeatedly had to administer treatments to people that I thought were not being well-served by their physician, who were not being given sufficient information to make informed decisions. From my perspective, I was inducing unnecessary suffering. It made me nuts. You know what I did? I left oncology. I'm free to say whatever I please and I don't violate my fundamental principles.
All you "conscientious objectors", get over yourselves.
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