Thread: Christian Doctors Angry Over "Conscience Rule" Reversal

Originally Posted by Mr. E

Rights are awesome, though. I am all for the rights of private industry, which is why I think they should have the right to not do what they don't want to do.

I realize the dilemma of 'what if someone lives in the middle of nowhere', but at the same time you have to take into account that (generally) this isn't going to be an every day thing. Emergency contraception is for emergencies, which, by definition, aren't what usually happen.

I mean, in the scenario you described gwahir, someone who is poorly educated may not know what to do and may be in trouble, but I don't think we should write policy to the lowest common denominator. I think it is safe to say that, in common scenarios, someone who really needs contraception will know how to get it, do whatever they have to do to get it, and then get it. Bad things are going to happen, but I don't think it is worth alienating an entire group of people in an integral industry just for a few obscure 'but what ifs'. I mean, seriously, how many fundamentalist christian doctors can there be?

The doctor's group in the OP article has 15,000 members. I realize it's a small fraction of the total number of healthcare workers in the US, but this is still a serious issue, especially since this kind of doctor is probably heavily represented in areas where doctors are few and far between. Besides: If there's not that many, then we shouldn't be worried about "alienating an entire group of people", should we? And of course emergencies "aren't what usually happen"; that's practically tautological. So what?