[QUOTE="JoeRatz16"]abortion is not health care. Abortion is not a matter of reproductive health! Glad to have the Pope's expert medical opinion weigh in there. And for your next comment about the patient's best interest, the only objection to abortion would be on religious/moral grounds, not health grounds. Guess which of those areas is the doctor's business? The doctor could refuse abortion on the following health grounds: 1. He thinks abortion is too risky a procedure (ie. sometimes the knife pierces the cervix) 2. He is worried she could get Post-Abortion-Syndrome 3. He sees the fetus as his patient too (afterall there are procedures done to save fetuses) 4. He is a licensed OB-GYN but has never trained in and or performed an abortion and thus doesn't really know how to (Or if he is morally opposed, he could just say he doesn't know how to).[QUOTE="xaos"]Great news! People who enter the health care field should be willing to provide health care, and if not, should find a career better suited to their beliefs.xaos
Also think of this: If the Doctor is morally against the procedure and has to be coerced into performing this, his mind won't be really into it, which could increase the chances of him making a mistake (or purposesly misperforming the procedure and saying it was a mistake, especially if he gets angry).
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