Quote:Religious freedom is one of the most basic liberties.

But people confuse the right to believe with the need to act. They can believe whatever the fuck they want as long as they do their jobs.

Unfortunately, there are too many republicunt politicians who are willing to bend over and spread their cheeks ( intentional use of the metaphor) for the nazis of the religious right.

Religious freedom is mostly fine until it interferes with others' rights and/or wellbeing. Then you can throw your fucking religion out the window - it should never trump saving someone's life.

Anyone who dares bring up religious freedom as a defense for these actions deserves to be smacked in the face.

She took an oath to do no harm. If she can't hold true to the promise, she has no business being a doctor.

(June 4, 2012 at 4:12 pm)Annik Wrote: She needs to see the inside of a jail cell for no less than 5 years.

She needs to contract AIDS and die untreated.

They'd probably attribute that to the devil and name her some sort of martyr.

Fuck these people make me ill.

(June 4, 2012 at 4:43 pm)Chuck Wrote:

(June 4, 2012 at 4:12 pm)Annik Wrote: She needs to see the inside of a jail cell for no less than 5 years.

She needs to contract AIDS and die untreated.

I really believe this kind of thinking is counter-productive. We yell accusations of murder while crying out for her death? I understand your anger, I really do, but we should not stoop to her level.

Quote from my erstwhile king: "Better she should lose her patients until she realizes her folly." I told him these people don't realize folly, and he said "But they do realize going poor."

Absolute disgrace. People this full of shit should be ground up and used as fertiliser. At least they'd do some good then.

(June 4, 2012 at 4:06 pm)Annik Wrote: I'd never condone her death

I can. For one thing, her actions, were they not caught by other hospice staff, may have accelerated the immune system collapse of the patient and subsequent death from bacterial infection.

In essence, she chose the actions calculated to deny the patient effective treatment, condemning them to certain death.

Physical harm is deserved. Acute.

Those who take the guise of healer should be torn limb from limb when they become executioner. She crossed that line.

At a bare minimum, it should resolve in her "professional life" being over, every accomplishment laid to waste, every cogent point sullied, for the barbarity of being an executioner in a healers garb.

But the United States is a country where it takes many dead children to convince the state of it's right to seize custody of children in matters of medical treatment when the parents are loons.