Apparently finding something that doesn’t take too long to read, President Obama has turned away from the mirror for a moment and is considering a review of the Bush administration’s rule that strengthened job protections for doctors and nurses who refuse to perform abortions for moral reasons.
Whether you are for or against abortion (or birth control, or self-control, for that matter), federal law already prohibits discrimination against health care professionals in this area. If a doctor or hospital does not wish to perform abortions, they do not have to do so.
But if you are a nurse or other type of health-care worker and you – personally – do not want to participate in such a procedure, then don’t go to work for a doctor who does perform them.
And that, boys and girls, is the beauty of living in a free country. Don’t like the way someone runs their business? Then don’t go work for them. If you feel you have no other choice, then suck it up and keep your mouth shut until you can go elsewhere.
It doesn’t get a whole lot more simple.
Though I suppose if the concept of “personal responsibility” is foreign to you, you won’t get it. So let me put it another way: To expect your employer to cater to your opinions and adjust their scheduling, etc. is ludicrous and selfish and ends up costing everyone money.
And I, for one, am sick of paying for these attempts to legislate morality.