Conscience Protection Rule

I never liked the “conscience protection” rule, which gives health care workers the right to refuse to provide treatments based on their beliefs. Health care workers can refuse to discuss or treat things relating to contraception, blood transfusions, and even vaccines if they want. But where do you draw the line. What is offensive to one person isn’t to someone else.

More than that, if you sign on to be a medical worker, you should treat people as they need and as they request. Refusing to do certain things because you feel it’s wrong, is a way of judging people that I think only God is allowed to do.

Now, health care professionals “might no longer be exempt from performing medical procedures that violate their religious beliefs if President Barack Obama reverses a rule that went into effect his first day in office.”

What do you think about this? Should health care professionals have the right to refuse procedures?

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