If you haven't read up on it, this proposed law would allow doctors and other health professionals the right to refuse health care services based on their personal beliefs.
So, with that, let's play devil's advocate and say we support it and it passes. What would happen? Well, certain doctor's would get their way and we would have certain doctors an health care professionals that would practice medicine under their own personal beliefs, either within a firm or own private practice, without fear of being fired for these moral stances. Sounds great right?
For patients, it would be a whole different story. Remember before abortion was illegal? I predict it would be similar to that. We would have unqualified hacks giving out medications and doing procedures that have NO business practicing. Why? Because people would get desperate to get the medical treatment that they want and deserve. So instead of stopping the behavior and "protecting" their patients, Dr. Moralist would be potentially be promoting more harm than good.
Anybody remember Dirty Dancing?
This proposed law would also tie church and state together like any other law before it. (Since Catholic and Evangelical sects are the ones who seem to benefit the most from a law like this).
So, even trying to Devil's Advocate, I can't see the benefit America would receive by passing this law. This type of ignorance and disrespect of patient's rights needs to stay in the past. It is a total invasion of patient's rights and this bill should be killed on either Congressional floor before it reaches a vote. The Bush Administration should be ashamed as well. America doesn't need to revert back to the 1960's.
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