From
MSNBC Now this is going just too fucking far!!!!:grr: This sounds like some horrible joke, but it isn't:
Woman gets raped goes in for her exam at the ER, asks for emergency contraception and the Doctor tells her
"No,"I can't do that. It's against my religion,"And this isn't an isolated incident, this is just one woman.
Doctors refusing to perform abortions. (Yeah that's old news)
Doctors refusing EC.
Doctors refusing to prescribe ANY contraception.
Doctors refusing single women who want to adopt.
Doctors refusing single women infertility treatment.
Doctors refusing lesbians.
Doctors refusing women........
Wow, what do all these have in common? Uh.... let me think.... I know it'S
WOMEN REFUSED TREATMENT!!!In theory, the laws aren't aimed solely at women's health — a bill in New Jersey lists eye doctors and prosthetics technicians as examples of providers who'd be allowed to refuse care based on their beliefs. But Morrison warns women not to be fooled. "I ask you, what belief would keep someone from fitting a patient with a prosthetic limb?" she asks. "What they're really after is limiting access to women's health care. Reproductive health is seen as something other than regular health care" — not a straightforward matter of treating and healing, but something laden with morality — "and if you treat it that way, it becomes something providers can say yes or no to." Men, for the most part, escape such scrutiny: It's pretty hard to imagine someone being made to feel he's going straight to hell for choosing to take Viagra or get a vasectomy."Doctor, I want to get my dick hard. I won't go to hell will I?"
In a survey published this year in The New England Journal of Medicine, 63 percent of doctors said it is acceptable to tell patients they have moral objections to treatments, and 18 percent felt no obligation to refer patients elsewhere.Please take time and read the entire article, it's lengthy I'm not going to post it here. Needless to say I'm so mad right now I know my blood pressure is gone way up.